The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 09 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Horrid Henry’s great aunt GRETA
In music, moderately soft mezzo piano
Irish comedian who said he first gave up smoking aged 8 Dave Allen
One who lives by or near flowing water RIVERAIN
Practice which features asanas YOGISM
Prepare to play just before a tennis match knock up
The fat of a pig LARD
The home of England’s only working slate mine, between Buttermere and Borrowdale Honister Pass
The Swiss-French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier
Word which may precede “suit” or “lizard” LOUNGE
GREEK GODDESS OF VICTORY NIKE
Fifa’s original World Cup trophy was named after ____ Jules Rimet
Colloquially, jargon used by ecological campaigners greenspeak
Breaking down of organic tissue, eg in metamorphosis histolysis
Two-act opera by Leoncavallo — literally “clowns” PAGLIACCI
The USA’s first electronic programmable computer, completed in 1945 ENIAC
The 1958 ____ of Nantes gave Huguenots freedom of worship EDICT
Late comedian, a long-term team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats SEAN LOCK
Landlocked country whose capital is Ouagadougou BURKINA FASO
A small mountain lake, usually in a glacial cirque TARN
A young male eloper, named after a romantic hero in Walter Scott’s Marmion LOCHINVAR
Buckinghamshire town once described by Bill Bailey as “Satan’s lay-by” MILTON KEYNES
Flemish composer Adrian ____ was maestro di capella at St Mark’s, Venice, 1527-62 WILLAERT
____ differ in atomic structures but not formulae ISOMERS