The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Named by a Spanish expedition in 1606, Vanuatu’s largest island Espiritu Santo
A possible one-word summary of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar TYRANNICIDE
A more specific word, such as “chair” for “furniture” HYPONYM
The Bank of England’s lending index base rate
Capital city whose name comes from an Algonquin word meaning “to trade” OTTAWA
One-word anagram of IT’S ALL TRUE ILLUSTRATE
A classical music piece, often lively and not following standard form — Tchaikovsky wrote one inspired by a trip to Rome CAPRICCIO
Hablot Knight ____ illustrated many Dickens novels BROWNE
A FEMALE SHEEP EWE
A brake pad holder CALIPER
Host of BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze MICHAEL BUERK
Singer whose first UK No 1 single was Burn ELLIE GOULDING
William H Macy’s co-star, as Amanda Kirby, in Jurassic Park III Tea Leoni
A complex road interchange or a tangle of parts like electrical cables Spaghetti Junction
French equivalent of “Shut up!” tais-toi
The ____ are members of class 2B at a school in Beanotown Bash Street Kids
Large and fast-moving fish related to mackerel WAHOO
Shakespeare tragedy; its eponymous Roman general has a daughter called Lavinia Titus Andronicus
Geological epoch from 23 to 5 million years ago, in which bipedal hominids evolved MIOCENE
Musca domestica, in plural houseflies
A person’s ghostly spitting image DOPPELGANGER
Musical instruction usually following a pizzicato section ARCO
MYOPIC short-sighted
RIGHT-HAND PAGE OF AN OPEN BOOK RECTO
Senior barrister often referred to as a silk King's Counsel
1945 conference site and capital of Brandenburg POTSDAM
In India, a mountain pass, a river landing place, or a cremation site GHAT
Material which transports fat molecules in, for example, blood plasma LIPOPROTEIN
A folded and filled tortilla TACO