The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2016 07 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Clerk hired by Uriah Heep WILKINS MICAWBER
Device which displays a script AUTOCUE
British commentator regarded as the voice of golf Peter Alliss
Based on its annual festival of sculpture, nickname of Harbin in China Ice City
Former Warsaw Pact country where an uprising was suppressed in 1953 EAST GERMANY
Australian cricketer who played for Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Durham Michael Hussey
Actor whose films include Seven and Ocean’s Eleven BRAD PITT
Informally, the quality of being fashionable COOLTH
A broad, starched neckband ETON COLLAR
A type of long grained rice BASMATI
Novel whose opening line is “Call me Ishmael” Moby-Dick
Criminal plea, the Latin word for “elsewhere” ALIBI
Political theorist, author of The Human Condition HANNAH ARENDT
Colour TV system used in the UK and most of Europe PAL
Doctor who covers the absence of another LOCUM
First British winner of the Eurovision Song Contest SANDIE SHAW
Body of water such as Haweswater RESERVOIR
Herb often used in fish dish sauces PARSLEY
Instrumental hit single for Hot Butter in 1972 POPCORN
Home city of snooker player Mark Selby LEICESTER
Protective secretion of various membranes MUCUS
Reggie Perrin’s shop with “ideal gifts for people you hate” GROT
Soft cheese whose name means “cooked again” in Italian RICOTTA
Road surfacing material patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley TARMACADAM
Rock band featuring guitarist Nuno Bettencourt EXTREME
MP who replaced Gordon Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling
Small marsupial of the didelphidae family OPOSSUM
Nun more involved in ancillary work than worship LAY SISTER
Manufacturer whose products are sometimes called hogs or bobbers Harley-Davidson
Madonna’s co-star in Desperately Seeking Susan Rosanna Arquette
Named after a region of France, a lawless area of historic London ALSATIA
Soak to promote loosening of fibres RET
Jason ____, British Touring Car driver PLATO
1984 novel by J G Ballard EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Star of the Roman Polanski film Tess NASTASSJA KINSKI
1991 action comedy starring Bruce Willis HUDSON HAWK
Languages of north-east — a study needed into such Na-Dene
Having someone up — a person at match losing head and angry ridered
Fish seen from Rupert’s yacht at sea trachypterus
Runaway Bride reunited director and co-stars nine years after this film PRETTY WOMAN
Expression of disapproval with English learner needing time for instruction TUTELAGE
Satirical show created by “Luck and Flaw” SPITTING IMAGE
Siren said to lure sailors onto rocks with her voice LORELEI
Usual kind of motor for small boats OUTBOARD
Points of honour with deceitful type falling short OBELIA
Suzanne Vega song sampled for Centuries by Fall Out Boy Tom's Diner
Swimmer who won two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 1978 SHARRON DAVIES
INDIAN LOINCLOTH DHOTI
DULL FELLOW NO LONGER AN ENTICEMENT, INADEQUATE EUROPEAN LURDANE
The first mass-produced hybrid car, made by Toyota PRIUS
Narrow passage’s superior look beyond street entering wood FISTULAR
Female left half-abandoned in jail — the ultimate punishment? STIFLER
To formally propose for election NOMINATE
Meringue and fruit dessert PAVLOVA
Tropical plant also called gumbo OKRA
Ubiquitous item of laboratory equipment BUNSEN BURNER
Dreamy talk? Some of it is due to a drug AMYTAL
US educational welfare system introduced in 1965 HEAD START
Wood traditionally used for black piano keys EBONY
Marine cattle class STEERAGE
Literally a witness; one who suffers or dies for their beliefs MARTYR
Kaiser Chiefs single released in 2004 and 2005 I Predict a Riot
Disprove first of “facts” in one bit of film? REFEL
____ Tharp, choreographer who worked on the films Hair and Amadeus TWYLA
The gills of an oyster BEARD
Third book of the Old Testament LEVITICUS
Tony ____, actor and comedian, a regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway? SLATTERY
Unit of food energy content KILOCALORIE
PART OF FLOWER KEEPING ALMOST COMPLETELY DRY BY A WALL PARIETAL
STAR CHARACTER AT THE END COMING TO THE FORE AS RULER AMIR
OPTIMISM OF FELLOW HOARDING GOLD MORALE
INDIVIDUAL NOT GETTING ON, OLD GOSSIP KEEN NO LONGER persaunt
OLD-FASHIONED LOOK OF QUAINT RIVER TWEER
EXPLORER FINDS ONLY HALF OF DISPERSED PEOPLE DIAS
HASSOCK WITH FRAYED EDGES? SEWER WOULD HAVE USED THIS ONCE NEELE
SNAKE IN THE TROSSACHS, SAY, UPSET BY SPLINTER ELAPS
SCANDINAVIAN SPIRIT FLAVOURED WITH CARAWAY SEEDS AKVAVIT
Ancient relations somehow scattered, having gone west EMES
AT EG MURRAYFIELD TESTED OUT SOFT GRASS preed
LIVELY SCOTTISH VERSES IN LONGER WORK WITH YEN FOR LOVE CANTY
EDIBLE SUBSTANCE CONSUMED BY TRAVELLER PERHAPS LERP
LAMENT LOSING GOOD ROB RIEVE
SKUNKS, FIRST TO AVOID TAX SET UP ATOCS
BIRD REPRESENTED AS AN ANGEL SALANGANE
FUNGUS USED IN BREWING AND BAKING YEAST
FABRIC WITH FOLD NEEDED BY THAT LADY? PLEATHER
SOFTENING OF LANGUAGE ONLINE NEEDS TO BE ORGANISED, IT IS ADMITTED LENITION
HATEFUL LINE AS INTRODUCTION TO CURSE LOATH
LANGUAGE OF BIRDS TWITCHING AVESTIC
BIBLICAL HANDMAID LOSING HEART IN THE MIST HAAR
STICKY STUFF, GALLONS, ON BODY OF WATER, SURFACING GLOOP
ONE DENYING SPIRITUAL REALITY COULD MAKE APOSTLE CRIER corporealist
WORD TO ATTRACT ATTENTION ABOUT BIRD MISAPPROPRIATED IN SCOTLAND STEALT
HEN NOT ENTIRELY IN GOOD HEALTH NEEDING SPELL OF WARMTH WELSUMMER
SUPPORTS LEADER OF THIEVES BREAKING INTO LOCK TRESTS
SOUTHERN US RELATION, PRICKLY TYPE ONE SHOULD AVOID BRER