The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 04 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
To get out of bed or make an appearance SHOW A LEG
URTICARIA, OR HIVES, IS OFTEN CALLED ____ RASH NETTLE
Old word for a huntsman; star destroyer class in Star Wars VENATOR
Mountain range running the length of the Italian peninsula APENNINES
Portuguese former goalkeeper, manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers since 2017 NUNO ESPIRITO SANTO
Popular name for the park including the venue of the US Open tennis championships FLUSHING MEADOWS
Raymond Burr played Erle Stanley Gardner’s ____ on TV PERRY MASON
Opera which begins and ends in a garret LA BOHEME
Celebrity hair stylist awarded an OBE in 2008 Nicky Clarke
Blackpool’s largest free indoor family attraction CORAL ISLAND
Breakfast in America was ____’s bestselling album SUPERTRAMP
ONE WHO USES FLATTERY TO PERSUADE WHEEDLER
PERTAINING TO THE ANCIENT PERSIAN GOD OF LIGHT, IDENTIFIED WITH THE SUN MITHRAIC
Where, according to British culture, it’s “grim” UP NORTH
Murder on the Dancefloor was a big hit single for ____ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Chinese fruit with a soft but inedible covering (shortest of various spellings) LICHI
A company with a ____ website may well say that it offers a better browsing experience REVAMPED
Electronic instrument played without touching it THEREMIN
In Greek myth, a female Bacchanalian MAENAD
FIRST NAME OF THE FEMME FATALE OF A 1988 COMEDY FILM STARRING JOHN CLEESE WANDA
INHABITANTS OF AN ANCIENT GREEK CITY CENTRAL TO BRONZE AGE CULTURE mycenaeans
THE CANONICAL HOUR BETWEEN TERCE AND NONES SEXT
ANY COMPUTER GAME WHICH SEEKS TO REPLICATE THE REAL WORLD SIM
The smallest country of Central America EL SALVADOR
Small variety of cos lettuce LITTLE GEM
IN CRICKET, A SHORT-PITCHED BALL, TYPICALLY EASY TO HIT LONG HOP
EGYPTIAN CITY ON THE SUEZ CANAL, FOUNDED BY THE RULING KHEDIVE IN 1863 AND NAMED AFTER HIM ISMAILIA
IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, AN ____ GROUP IS A VINYL GROUP ATTACHED TO A METHYLENE BRIDGE, AND IS NAMED AFTER THE LATIN FOR GARLIC ALLYL
ACTOR WHO PLAYED ANTONY ROYLE IN THE ROYLE FAMILY Ralf Little
Argentinian football club based at Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti RIVER PLATE
____ won 21 grand slam titles with Martina Navratilova PAM SHRIVER
African country named after a lake CHAD
“Men ____ while they teach” (Seneca the Younger) LEARN
1980 single by Dire Straits; 1987 album and single by Bruce Springsteen TUNNEL OF LOVE
Albrecht ____, German artist noted for his woodcut prints DURER
Actress whose roles include Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous Julia Sawalha
“The spiritualisation of ____ is called love” (Nietzsche) SENSUALITY
1957 novel by Christopher Landon, later a film starring John Mills and Sylvia Syms ICE COLD IN ALEX
Footless representation of a bird in heraldry MARTLET
Former naval term for bread rather than ship’s biscuit soft tack
Fee paid to secure someone’s services RETAINER
Current captain of the England women’s cricket team Heather Knight
Old-fashioned name for both Irish and Scottish Gaelic ERSE
ONE WHOSE NATIVE TONGUE MAY BE WENDISH, CZECH, SERBIAN ETC SLAV
Heaviest noble gas, produced by the decay of uranium-238 RADON
TURKISH EQUIVALENT OF MR BEY
NINCOMPOOPS HALFWITS
Driver of the Compact Pussycat in the Wacky Races cartoons PENELOPE PITSTOP
German director of films including Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas WIM WENDERS
George Orwell novel originally subtitled A Fairy Story ANIMAL FARM