The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 09 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Trollope’s fictional English county, in the title of the final novel in a six-volume series BARSET
The influential philosophy text Critique of Pure Reason was written by Immanuel ____ KANT
The UK’s best-selling single of 1974 TIGER FEET
The City of London’s main shopping street since medieval times CHEAPSIDE
Taxonomy grouping equivalent to a division in botany PHYLUM
Stage name of the singer born Robyn Fenty RIHANNA
Sir ____ Fuchs led a land crossing of Antarctica in 1957-8 VIVIAN
Bomber pilot and close friend of Yossarian in Catch-22 ORR
A length of four inches HAND
PROPRIETARY NAME FOR A TYPE OF RECHARGEABLE BATTERY NICAD
Hornby model railway brand, introduced in 1938 DUBLO
Folded veil used as a nun’s headdress WIMPLE
Vladimir ____ wrote Lolita NABOKOV
Vertical feature of staircases NEWEL POST
Tour de France winner in 2015, 2016 and 2017 CHRIS FROOME
Another name for a dowser DIVINER
BAND WHOSE SONG LIVE IT UP FEATURED IN THE FILM CROCODILE DUNDEE Mental as Anything
Harry ____ played Mr Bumble in the film version of Oliver! SECOMBE
SCATTERED OR SCANTY SPARSE
THEORY OF GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR WAS WRITTEN BY JOHN VON ____ AND OSKAR MORGENSTERN NEUMANN
A FEMALE KANGAROO DOE
MATERIAL ON WHICH ANOTHER MATERIAL IS DEPOSITED SUBSTRATE
THE ____ MOB DROVE THE BULLETPROOF BOMB IN WACKY RACES ANT HILL
FRAGILE PORCELAIN FROM A TOWN IN FERMANAGH BELLEEK
MOB QUAD IS IN THIS PART OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY Merton College
A NOTED ORNITHOLOGIST GAVE HIS NAME TO THIS FICTIONAL SECRET AGENT JAMES BOND
Prince ____ Road is a street in London’s “Albertopolis” area CONSORT
Notable feature of Jupiter GREAT RED SPOT
Musician, played by Suzi Quatro, in some episodes of Happy Days Leather Tuscadero
Sweet, nut-based filling in chocolate PRALINE
FORM OF TRANSPORT WHICH MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE MINICAB
Gathered mass of carded wool ready for spinning rolag
First words in verse 51 of Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam THE MOVING FINGER WRITES
Current venue of the US Open tennis tournament FLUSHING MEADOWS
INFLUENTIAL 20TH-CENTURY US ARCHITECT Robert Venturi
Disc formerly used instead of a coin in French payphones JETON
Most of this national park is in Wyoming YELLOWSTONE
Location of public executions in London, 1783-1868 NEWGATE
Jordan’s only coastal city, near Eilat in Israel AQABA
Influential musician and producer, originally a member of Roxy Music BRIAN ENO
H Rider Haggard’s fictional game hunter Allan Quatermain
Greta Garbo starred as a Russian emissary in this 1939 film NINOTCHKA
A SECRET ORGANISATION, OR ANY GROUP THOUGHT TO RESEMBLE IT MAFIA
VESSEL DISPLAYING THE CONSECRATED HOST IN CATHOLIC MASSES MONSTRANCE
Midfielder who joined Arsenal from Southampton in 2011 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
NARRATOR AND PURPORTED AUTHOR OF EPIC POEMS BY JAMES MACPHERSON OSSIAN
ACTRESS WHO PLAYED LAURA JESSON IN BRIEF ENCOUNTER CELIA JOHNSON
THE MOST POPULAR VARIETY OF THIS VEGETABLE IS CALABRESE BROCCOLI
F1 TEAM FOR WHOM ESTEBAN OCON AND PASCAL WEHRLEIN RACED IN 2016 MANOR
STRONG WIND WHICH BLOWS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN COAST CAPE DOCTOR
WILD ASSES, OR HISTORICAL STONE-THROWING DEVICES ONAGERS
THE FIRST STAGE OF THE 2014 TOUR DE FRANCE ENDED IN THIS SPA TOWN HARROGATE
WINNER OF THE 2009 GRAND NATIONAL ON MON MOME, AT 100-1 Liam Treadwell
Canadian province between Manitoba and Quebec ONTARIO
“The mere ____ pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great …” (Dr David Livingstone) ANIMAL
THE DEEP INNER LAYER OF THE SKIN DERMA
Breed of dog whose name is based on a word meaning “land” TERRIER
Another name for the weaver’s knot or hitch SHEET BEND
Actress whose most notable character was Yvette Carte-Blanche in ’Allo ’Allo Vicki Michelle
“____, and quit my sight!” (Macbeth, to Banquo’s ghost) AVAUNT