The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 07 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
International agreement protecting endangered plants and animals, opened for signature in 1973 CITES
Johnny ____ of Fulham was Britain’s first footballer to earn £100 a week, after the 1961 abolition of the £20 maximum wage HAYNES
Siberian city where Decembrists were exiled IRKUTSK
In the 19th century, most of the world’s supply of this element came from Sicily SULPHUR
A LONG THIN CIGAR PANATELLA
The US equivalent of bogof TWOFER
SO FAR AS YET
Grade I listed structure on the eastern approach to Bristol Temple Meads station Avon bridge
Plant cultivation using mineral nutrients in water HYDROPONICS
WORKED OUT BY REASONING DEDUCED
Norwegian Wood was the first pop song to use this instrument SITAR
Forename of women’s suffrage campaigner Mrs Pankhurst EMMELINE
Of a ship, to almost stop while facing the wind LIE TO
Mathematical education equipment in which 1 is represented by a white cube cuisenaire rods
Fashion designer best known for tennis dresses teddy Tinling
Foretell the future with a crystal ball or similar object SCRY
French cigarette brand with a gypsy dancer on the packets GITANES
Flowering soon IN BUD
Fictional work mainly about personality rather than plot CHARACTER STUDY
Beef cut containing parts of shoulder bones CHUCK STEAK
A dazed state STUPOR
&23A: “The biggest word you ever heard and this is how it goes: Oh, ____” (Mary Poppins — 1964 film) SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC
A rule issued by a US president, having the force of law EXECUTIVE ORDER
1966 film in which a miniaturised submarine is injected into a scientist’s body to remove a blood clot FANTASTIC VOYAGE
“Kensington ____” is an informal term for stage blood GORE
“That was The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, ____ for radio by putting it onto a piece of wood and banging a few nails through it” (Gumby Theatre, Monty Python) ADAPTED
“Our nada ____ in nada, nada be thy name” (Ernest Hemingway) WHO ART
____ starred in the title role of Tom Jones, the 1964 best picture Oscar winner ALBERT FINNEY
Former Pravda editor Nikolai ____ was executed in 1938, after a show trial BUKHARIN
SEE 1A expialidocious
A SPENDTHRIFT WASTREL
Accommodation for animals at docks or markets LAIRAGE
The ____ of Sauron is his main image in The Lord of the Rings EYE
Someone using a noosed rope to catch horses or cattle LASSOER
This former companion of Abraham fled from the city of Sodom LOT
The best-known song from the musical No, No, Nanette TEA FOR TWO
The ____s that produce pearls are in a different family from the edible ones OYSTER
Pudding often involving dunked strawberries Chocolate fondue
Luther ____ played for Watford FC and AC Milan BLISSETT
What a satnav helps you to do, as some of them say REACH YOUR DESTINATION
The Simpsons first appeared on US television as part of The Tracey ____ Show ULLMAN
Structure abutting the walls of a larger building lean-to
Constellation including the stars Rigel and Betelgeuse ORION
Change from first to second gear, for instance UPSHIFT
Captain Frederick ____ wrote Mr Midshipman Easy MARRYAT
Capital city of North Carolina RALEIGH
Cancel out or invalidate NULLIFY
By population, Australia’s fifth-largest city ADELAIDE
Accommodation such as the Queen Mary in Long Beach BOATEL