The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2016 07 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Is Oct unsettled for those from San José? TICOS
A persistent preoccupation OBSESSION
Ancient port, originally on the mouth of the Tiber OSTIA
Army rank between colonel and major general BRIGADIER
Arturo ___, Italian conductor TOSCANINI
Brian in The Magic Roundabout SNAIL
Bronze representation of Helios completed by Chares of Lindos around 280BC COLOSSUS
Dutch port, the birthplace of Erasmus ROTTERDAM
Experts in training trees to create decorative shapes or animals TOPIARISTS
Horse-racing parade rings PADDOCKS
Slang term for a pound NICKER
South African city besieged by the Boers for four months, 1899-1900 LADYSMITH
“Great” hostilities one hundred years ago World War One
State capital of Kansas TOPEKA
Such plates are personalised registrations VANITY
Surrey town at the foot of the North Downs EWELL
No longer discussed swapping leader and MP emparled
The cruellest month, according to TS Eliot APRIL
Star of Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em MICHAEL CRAWFORD
The white poplar ABELE
The wild ass of Central Asia ONAGER
Carry On star who appeared in Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne KENNETH WILLIAMS
Verdigris for example PATINA
Waiting to be dealt with IN THE PIPELINE
Gather last of these together no more in fere
Form of pasta made in narrow strips TAGLIATELLE
SOMEWHAT DUTIFUL, I OPTED TO RETURN SIMPLE SOLDAT POILU
AT GRETNA GREEN, TEST BY KISSING GROOM ENDLESSLY PREE
End up reining in Queen’s horse? EQUID
Direct loss as failing DECREE
Devastated over losing one repeater — end of service? DEMOB
Delicately framed panel and fine boxes ELFIN
Deeply impress English over Scots split ENGRAVE
Choice is all but full PLUM
Bishop, say, joining firm as one who relished monkery? beghard
Bet with bloody fool about a thing driven at St Andrews gowf-ba'
Sixth wife of Henry VIII CATHERINE PARR
A lot he wasted bottling new alcohol ETHANOL
… run through, eg, Private Eye’s little mud-slinging scan mag
Moderate depression about over COOL
Seized gear at Housman’s beacon site cleekit
Shake Latin learner lodging in Trinity TRILLO
Ground-breaking BBC TV interview programme presented by John Freeman FACE TO FACE
The fancy press baron let … noble art
Spoil what ends dire performance based solely on routine ROTE
Spin conclusion in one struggling to see — he’ll need this? MONOCLE
____ in Gaza, 1936 novel by Aldous Huxley EYELESS
First property on the UK’s standard Monopoly board OLD KENT ROAD
Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh-based detective Inspector Rebus
Italian region whose provinces include Arezzo, Grosseto and Lucca TUSCANY
Epic novel about the Bezukhov, Bolkonsky and Rostov families WAR AND PEACE
Jurisdiction of the chief justices of Jersey and Guernsey BAILIWICK
US pouches of the highest quality, $100 from the East CECA
King of Arms whose jurisdiction includes England north of the Trent Norroy and Ulster
Knowledgeable in literature LETTERED
Liverpudlian 1960s music MERSEY BEAT
Co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures STEVEN SPIELBERG
Norfolk setting for Arthur Ransome’s child’s novel Coot Club THE BROADS
Old instruments of torture; boxes lined with metal spikes in which the prisoner was fastened Iron maidens
One of Robert Catesby’s co-conspirators GUY FAWKES
Chinese system of callisthenics TAI CHI
Usual name for Martin Luther King’s 1963 civil rights speech at the Lincoln Memorial I HAVE A DREAM
Ross Kemp’s role in EastEnders Grant Mitchell
Royal burgh in Fife, the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie DUNFERMLINE
Russian ballet dancer who frequently partnered Margot Fonteyn RUDOLF NUREYEV
Russian composer of Scheherazade and Sadko Rimsky-Korsakov
Sea creatures which, in medieval art, represented social love DOLPHINS
Shakespeare play with What You Will as an alternative title TWELFTH NIGHT
Village on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula between Pwllheli and Abersoch llanbedrog
___ Barlow played Mavis Wilton in Coronation Street THELMA
Tight corset which doesn’t show lines in lassie’s list ROON
____ Rock was a 1980s TV series with a cast of Muppet creatures FRAGGLE
Abstainer having entered his group quietly leaves for cover ATTAP
Sweet white German wine from individually selected bunches of very ripe grapes AUSLESE
The first edited version of a film with scenes in sequence and the soundtrack synchronised ROUGH CUT
ADULT LEADER OF A PACK OF CUB SCOUTS AKELA
GOUSTROUS HOWF WITH IT IN SIMILAR ABUNDANCE FOWTH
A type of well? It earns a bomb ARTESIAN
FRENCH PAIN? WREATH SHOWS BONES MALLEI
NOTHING ADDED TO THIS HARP WOULD GIVE THE SAME LEVEL OF LOUDNESS NEBEL
Tedious Sabbath, popular for ages in the past long sin
Chinese fruit fired up life force for them LITCHI
RODENT LEFT IN ORCADIAN BAY VOLE
SUFFER SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE WAR POET abrooke
FIGHTER PASSED OVER JUST MOTHER AND CREW MEMBER AIRMAN
GENERAL MOTORS EXPAND ENLARGE
RIGHT TO EXHIBIT CONCERNS ABOUT SHOE FASTENER T-strap
STOCKJOBBERY? I GOT STUCK IN SINCE FINDING TIME TO MATURE AGIOTAGE
GO AHEAD WITH PLAN FOR SMALL COIN DOIT
Smart nurse binned note which could be made up PAINTED
Respect manipulated something seen as a threat SPECTRE
THIS ENABLES TRAVEL THROUGH ETERNITY PERAEON
Juan Manuel ___, world champion F1 driver each year from 1954 to 1957 FANGIO
Moliere’s miser in L’Avare HARPAGON
Pop singer whose hits include All Shook Up and Return to Sender ELVIS PRESLEY
Public school which actors Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis and Eddie Redmayne attended ETON COLLEGE