The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 06 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Surrey’s cricket captain, 1963-1972, whose son became England’s captain in 1998 Micky Stewart
The earlier incarnation of “home economics” Domestic science
Town now in Oxfordshire, where MG cars were built for fifty years until 1980 ABINGDON
Violent tropical storms CYCLONES
What a sundial indicates Solar time
Manicuring aid for cleaning fingernails and cuticles Orange stick
The eponymous hero of Alain-Fournier’s classic novel Le Grand Meaulnes
Car firm which currently produces Ghost, Dawn and Cullinan models Rolls-Royce
Canticle using words from chapter 1 of St Luke’s gospel MAGNIFICAT
Technically trichoptilosis, a “bad hair day” problem SPLIT ENDS
Vegetation providing shelter for wild animals COVER
1984 Nobel peace prize winner, later made an archbishop Desmond Tutu
1973 13-part BBC TV documentary written and presented by Dr Jacob Bronowski The Ascent of Man
The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers ANTECEDENT
Sob bitterly Cry one's eyes out
The purchasers of a newspaper or magazine READERSHIP
Musical direction meaning “at a fairly brisk pace” ALLEGRETTO
Footwear and sportswear company founded by Adolf Dassler ADIDAS
Orchestral song cycle by Ravel, based on poems by Tristan Klingsor which were inspired by The Thousand and One Nights SHEHERAZADE
Potato wedges, raita and garlic bread, for example SIDE DISHES
Probe which flew by and studied Halley’s comet in 1986 GIOTTO
SQUID SERVED AS FOOD CALAMARI
Ancient Greek dramatist who wrote The Wasps and The Birds ARISTOPHANES
Greek god, son of Kronos and Rhea ZEUS
A portion of an issue of shares TRANCHE