The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 11 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A Eucharistic offering to God OBLATION
A Shia religious leader AYATOLLAH
African country formerly called Nyasaland MALAWI
America’s “Beaver State” OREGON
An American illusionist; a Charles Dickens novel DAVID COPPERFIELD
An enemy aircraft, in Second World War RAF lingo BANDIT
Become enclosed in an abnormal bodily sac ENCYST
Celestial body, from a Greek word meaning “wanderer” PLANET
A designer of haute couture FASHIONISTA
A boisterous laugh GUFFAW
“Great drama […] must have dimension and its ____ will take care of itself” (Robertson Davies) RELEVANCE
Fiercely determined TIGERISH
____ was originally called Byzantium ISTANBUL
One of two cells which combine to form a zygote GAMETE
Three-syllable phrase abbreviated in nine syllables WORLD WIDE WEB
Former county named after its main river AVON
FIELD GLASSES BINOCULARS
Welsh valleys CWMS
Form of Buddhism practised in Myanmar and Thailand THERAVADA
Beer, to an Australian SHERBET
Former England manager popularly known as El Tel TERRY VENABLES
Inflammation of glands, especially lymph nodes ADENITIS
Narrator and central character of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson DAVID BALFOUR
Star Trek: Voyager character portrayed by Garrett Wang Harry Kim
The UK’s biggest selling single of 1971 MY SWEET LORD
The youngest winner (at age 29) of a best actor Oscar, for his role in The Pianist Adrien Brody
A house in Italy or Spain CASA