The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Irish name for a cudgel made of oak or blackthorn SHILLELAGH
LARGE FURNITURE VAN PANTECHNICON
THE ____ TAPES, 2015 HORROR FILM ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESSION VATICAN
Third-largest city in Wales, near the mouth of the River Usk NEWPORT
Unwanted noise on a phone or radio STATIC
Fruit with drupelets, a hybrid created accidentally in California in 1881 LOGANBERRY
In Britain, an open space surrounded by cloisters GARTH
Informally, a member of a minority group outside the 1900 union of the two main Scottish Presbyterian churches WEE FREE
ITV 1970s comedy classic with a black and white cat called Vienna RISING DAMP
Lighting control which varies brightness in a room DIMMER SWITCH
Members of an ascetic Jewish sect, active from approximately 200BC to 100AD ESSENES
“And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was ____” (Mark 1:42) CLEANSED
“Six songs from ____” is George Butterworth’s 1911 baritone and piano setting of poems by AE Housman A SHROPSHIRE LAD
1980s US crime drama series featuring Crockett and Tubbs MIAMI VICE
1981 Disney flop in which a comic book writer attempts to fly like his fictional creation condorman
Largest city in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino canton LUGANO
A design created by inlaying gold or silver on steel DAMASCENE
A showcase for impressionists, broadcast on both Radio 4 and BBC2 DEAD RINGERS
A white skull and crossbones on a black field JOLLY ROGER
Actor who has played Karl Kennedy in over 3,700 episodes of Neighbours Alan Fletcher
Jordan’s capital city AMMAN
Island nation invaded by US forces in 1983 GRENADA
Blue-black fruit often used in gin or jelly DAMSON
Infectious agent believed to cause BSE PRION
Competitive shooting sport developed in the early 1980s PAINTBALL
SMALL SHALLOW BOWL FOR OENOPHILES TASTEVIN
OF SNOW, DESCENDING RAPIDLY DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE AVALANCHING
Sportsman such as Kevin Mayer or Roman Sebrle DECATHLETE
Surname of a Manchester United goalkeeper; later the name of Chesney’s Great Dane in Coronation Street SCHMEICHEL
The oldest city of the ancient Assyrian empire and its capital during the reign of Sennacherib, later destroyed in 612BC NINEVEH
The world’s second-largest religion ISLAM
Mountainous “breathing space” created in 1951, which includes the Glyders and Cader Idris Snowdonia National Park
Nation which had no national parks until 2002 SCOTLAND
Pips on the hour on radio or TV time signal
Presenter of Only Connect on BBC2 VICTORIA COREN MITCHELL
Something carried by a pageboy, traditionally TRAIN
____ replaced Lagos as the capital of Nigeria in 1991 ABUJA
A black-and-white photo MONOCHROME
Actress who played Demelza in the 1970s BBC Poldark series Angharad Rees
Affected by the condition once called “Derbyshire neck” GOITROUS
Capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina SARAJEVO
Daily newspaper whose new editor, Roula Khalaf, succeeded Lionel Barber in January FINANCIAL TIMES
A pseudo-Arabic name, probably invented by Paracelsus, for the hypothetical universal solvent sought by alchemists ALKAHEST
Forename of George Eliot’s “Weaver of Raveloe” SILAS
From Italian, a name for Ottoman empire slave quarters BAGNIO
DOROTHY ____ WON HER FIRST EVENING STANDARD BEST ACTRESS AWARD FOR PLAYING VIOLA IN THE 1960 RSC PRODUCTION OF TWELFTH NIGHT TUTIN