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
What a sundial indicates Solar time
Vegetation providing shelter for wild animals COVER
Town now in Oxfordshire, where MG cars were built for fifty years until 1980 ABINGDON
Manicuring aid for cleaning fingernails and cuticles Orange stick
The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers ANTECEDENT
Car firm which currently produces Ghost, Dawn and Cullinan models Rolls-Royce
The purchasers of a newspaper or magazine READERSHIP
Violent tropical storms CYCLONES
Probe which flew by and studied Halley’s comet in 1986 GIOTTO
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
Technically trichoptilosis, a “bad hair day” problem SPLIT ENDS
Sob bitterly Cry one's eyes out
The eponymous hero of Alain-Fournier’s classic novel Le Grand Meaulnes
Musical direction meaning “at a fairly brisk pace” ALLEGRETTO
SQUID SERVED AS FOOD CALAMARI
Potato wedges, raita and garlic bread, for example SIDE DISHES
Orchestral song cycle by Ravel, based on poems by Tristan Klingsor which were inspired by The Thousand and One Nights SHEHERAZADE
Footwear and sportswear company founded by Adolf Dassler ADIDAS
Canticle using words from chapter 1 of St Luke’s gospel MAGNIFICAT
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