The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Commune of Brittany noted for lines of standing stones CARNAC
Eric Partridge was a ____ who specialised in slang LEXICOGRAPHER
Europe’s most sparsely populated nation ICELAND
French town which gave its name to a wall tapestry ARRAS
Informal name for a tachometer rev counter
Informally, an Academy Award OSCAR
Insulated container which a Kiwi might take on a picnic chilly bin
Muslim exhortation meaning “God is most great” Allahu Akbar
Online campaign which “votes down” a product or service to damage its reputation review bomb
Pharisee mentioned in St John’s gospel NICODEMUS
Suite of nine dance movements by Stravinsky, composed for a 1944 Broadway revue Scenes de Ballet
The first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer
The ____ is a promotional nickname for Foster’s Lager Amber Nectar
____ is significant when writing in languages like Chinese Stroke order
COMING INTO BEING NASCENT
Colloquial instruction to calm down take a chill pill
BBC sitcom starring Ricky Gervais as Andy Millman EXTRAS
A go-between or negotiator INTERMEDIARY
“You always tell me / ____, ____, ____” (Eponymous song lyrics, probably best-known in a cover version by Doris Day) PERHAPS
THE CAPITAL OF TIBET LHASA
The capital of Venezuela CARACAS
2015 drama film named after a David Hockney painting A BIGGER SPLASH
Maori ceremonial war dances HAKAS