The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
MOTHER WIT HORSE SENSE
“The whole ____ and caboodle” means “everything” KIT
A list showing every use of a significant word in a text, especially the Bible CONCORDANCE
A Middle Eastern British Crown Colony, 1937-63 ADEN
Italian astronomer, the first to study stars with a telescope GALILEO GALILEI
Mexican state which contains the port city of Boca del Rio VERACRUZ
Molecules of ____ dyes have two adjacent nitrogen atoms between carbon atoms AZO
One name for the electrical discharge which travels along an axon neural impulse
One of the world’s biggest fjord systems, on the east coast of Greenland Scoresby Sound
Optical illusion in which a box shape appears to have two possible orientations Necker cube
Oxfordshire market town, birthplace of Alfred the Great WANTAGE
Pakistan’s largest city KARACHI
Pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen ISAK DINESEN
Producing double refraction birefringent
Roy ____’s topical sketch show on BBC Radio Two ran from 1975 to 2001 hudd
Scandinavian composer whose fourth symphony includes a “battle” between two timpanists NIELSEN
Short tubes on the end of shoelaces AGLETS
Silkworms which produce a coarse, fawn-coloured silk TUSSORES
The cup in the Eucharistic prayer HOLY GRAIL
The dog in series 2-5 of Downton Abbey ISIS
The type of bowling for which Edgar Willsher was no-balled six times in a match at the Oval in 1862 OVERARM
The ____ is familiarly known as the Quakers Society of Friends
Those who behave ostentatiously to attract attention show-offs
Time interval defined in terms of caesium-133 radiation frequency atomic second
To celebrate lavishly, especially on the return of a prodigal kill the fatted calf
Town of Caithness and the river it straddles WICK
US cult leader who was jailed for life in 1971, and died in 2017 Charles Manson
What Christ taught in Matthew vi, 9-13 and Luke xi, 2-4 the Lord's Prayer
A right enjoyed to limited use of a neighbour’s land, often to cross it to reach one’s own property EASEMENT
A washed-rind cow’s milk cheese made in northern Italy FONTINA
Actor whose roles include that of Beria in Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin Simon Russell Beale
Former Coronation Street character played by Lynne Perrie IVY TILSLEY
Informally, one interested in stars, UFOs, aircraft etc skywatcher
Informally, an unpleasant smell NIFF
“____, I smell the blood of an Englishman” fee-fi-fo-fum
“E pluribus unum” means “____, one” out of many
In the British Army, ____s include bombardiers NCO
In the 1990s, Paul ____ played for Manchester United, Inter Milan and Liverpool INCE
French-born winner of the best actress Oscar in 1935, for It Happened One Night, in which she starred with Clark Gable Claudette Colbert
French term for an intelligent and cultured male homme d'esprit
Fabric gathered to make an ornamental frill RUFFLE
An archaic alternative to “sculptors” STATUARIES
Expression of contempt or exasperation, thought to derive from French BAH
Englishman who wrote Studies in the Psychology of Sex Havelock Ellis
Elgar’s Opus 36 is popularly known as the ____ Variations ENIGMA
Cartoonist for The Sunday Times, 1967-2017 Gerald Scarfe
Argentinian city in which the country’s flag was first raised, by General Manuel Belgrano ROSARIO
Another name for the puma COUGAR