The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 04 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A WIND OF FORCE 12 ON THE ORIGINAL BEAUFORT SCALE HURRICANE
This film inspired the TV series Dixon of Dock Green THE BLUE LAMP
Host of Mock the Week since 2005 DARA O BRIAIN
A large oven tray DRIPPING PAN
If you ____ in a role, it may not have been part of a plan END UP
A duty or responsibility ONUS
Colourless orange-flavoured liqueur, produced in France COINTREAU
1991 ALBUM BY CHRIS REA AUBERGE
STAR WARS CHARACTER ORIGINALLY VOICED BY FRANK OZ YODA
DEVICE WHICH PRODUCES PINHOLE IMAGES CAMERA OBSCURA
Forty Years On (1968) was the first play by ____ ALAN BENNETT
ONE WITH A REPUTATION FOR BEING UNSCRUPULOUS A BAD LOT
1932 FILM WHICH WON AN OSCAR FOR BEST FILM, ITS ONLY NOMINATION GRAND HOTEL
BRITISH EQUESTRIAN WHO WON THE BADMINTON HORSE TRIALS A RECORD SIX TIMES LUCINDA GREEN
IMAGE FILENAME EXTENSION FIRST USED IN 1986 TIF
Circuit at which Nigel Mansell had his first Formula One Grand Prix win BRANDS HATCH
Bird to which adjective “corvine” applies CROW
Character played by Antonio Fargas in Starsky & Hutch HUGGY BEAR
Actor who played Starsky in Starsky & Hutch PAUL MICHAEL GLASER
“American literature has always been ____” (Salman Rushdie) IMMIGRANT
“On some ____ esteem is based” (Moliere) PREFERENCE
“It follows […] that the best men must ____ with the best women in as many cases as possible and the worst with the worst in the fewest.” (Plato) COHABIT
OPENED THE MOUTH WIDE GAPED
BARREN non-fertile
An expression of incredulity AS IF
Baked in a pastry wrapping EN CROUTE
British rower, current coxless pairs Olympic champion with partner Helen Glower HEATHER STANNING
1973 Jackson 5 album, the first to feature all five brothers on lead vocals GET IT TOGETHER
According to a supplier’s website, ____ bring the magic of the stage even closer to you OPERA GLASSES
Part of a cereal plant which stores seeds EAR
Phrase reflecting UK pop culture of the 1990s COOL BRITANNIA
In jousting, a lance charge against an opponent TILT
A SIGNIFICANT SUM IS NOTHING TO ____ SNIFF AT
Michael ____ won the Formula One World Championship seven times SCHUMACHER
North American lager with fractional freezing in its production process ICE BEER
The title of a newspaper or magazine as it appears in print MASTHEAD
The capital of Madeira FUNCHAL
Lack of care or wisdom IMPRUDENCE
Stand-up comedian whose autobiography Straight Outta Crawley was published in 2018 ROMESH RANGANATHAN
The lowest social stratum in a community UNDERCLASS
The postal service, as opposed to electronic communication SNAIL MAIL
The first line of Moby-Dick CALL ME ISHMAEL
Item of ballet attire named after a French childish word for “bottom” TUTU
J Robert ____ was the first director of the Los Alamos Laboratory where atomic bombs were developed OPPENHEIMER
If your usual cook has gone out for the evening, you might ____ a takeaway pizza PUT IN AN ORDER FOR
Irish jockey who won the Grand National on Papillon and Hedgehunter RUBY WALSH
After Izmir, the second-largest Turkish city on the Mediterranean coast ANTALYA
MACHINE USED TO MAKE THE MALE PART OF A COMMON WOOD JOINT TENONER