The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
In this 1974 novel by Nadine Gordimer, the protagonist Mehring attempts to sustain nature and apartheid THE CONSERVATIONIST
Of rock, arranged in thin layers STRATICULATE
Comedian who said in his autobiography that “I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster” FREDDIE STARR
BALDNESS ALOPECIA
The ____ was a 1956 film in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan CONQUEROR
BBC sitcom featuring Penelope Keith as Margo Leadbetter THE GOOD LIFE
Capcom video game released in 1996, in which the objective is to escape from a mansion inhabited by zombies and similar creatures RESIDENT EVIL
RIDDEN BY DEREK FOX, THE WINNER OF THE 2017 GRAND NATIONAL ONE FOR ARTHUR
Decorated using a watered-down paint DISTEMPERED
Northumberland market town which held an annual “Olympic games” with running and wrestling events until the late 1950s MORPETH
TO FLOW OUT QUICKLY IN LARGE QUANTITIES SPEW
A loop in lace or embroidery, often decorating a border PICOT
In Greek myth, a sorceress who married Jason MEDEA
Messenger of the gods in Greek mythology HERMES
Situated beneath the tongue HYPOGLOSSAL
OWEN ____ LED A WELSH UPRISING AGAINST HENRY IV GLENDOWER
Colloquially, one with very well-developed muscles HARDBODY
Spanish forename derived from the name of one of Christ’s 12 apostles DIEGO
The musical name for Detroit MOTOWN
To supply with arms MUNITION
Poetically, to set free disprison
Showing all that can be seen in a single view PANOPTICAL
Passerine bird associated with Baltimore ORIOLE
Row of icons showing functions available in computer software TOOLBAR
The Isle of Portland lies at the western end of ____ CHESIL BEACH
The butterfly Vanessa atalanta RED ADMIRAL
The “fantastical Spaniard” of Love’s Labour’s Lost DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO
The Hellenic Republic GREECE
The sabal ____ is the state tree of both South Carolina and Florida PALMETTO
This contains the egg cell of a seed-bearing plant OVULE
The spirit of a culture or era ETHOS
Showing signs of vesication BLISTERED
Short rope ladders used by climbers ETRIERS
2003 lead single from the Dido album Life for Rent WHITE FLAG
1971 film in which Michael Caine starred as a London gangster GET CARTER
Actress who played the White Witch in three films based on CS Lewis’s Narnia books TILDA SWINTON
Actor famed for his role as Spock in Star Trek LEONARD NIMOY
Actor who played Costas in the 1989 film Shirley Valentine TOM CONTI
Actor who played cantankerous Percy Sugden in Coronation Street Bill Waddington
Author of the satirical novel Candide VOLTAIRE
The brightest star of Taurus ALDEBARAN
The only male Bulgarian tennis player to have been ranked in the ATP singles top ten GRIGOR DIMITROV
____ played Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale and presented You’ve Been Framed LISA RILEY
A LOCATION FOR WHICH CO-ORDINATES ARE RECORDED IN A GPS SYSTEM WAYPOINT
FORMER NAME FOR A GASTROPOD, IE A MOLLUSC WITH A ONE-PIECE SHELL UNIVALVE
Dr ____ is arrested and tried in EM Forster’s A Passage to India AZIZ
Especially of eggs, to become rotten ADDLE
George ____ was India’s surveyor general from 1830 to 1843 EVEREST