The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 10 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Simon and Garfunkel song which starts with boarding a Greyhound bus in Pittsburgh AMERICA
SITE OF A NOTORIOUS MASSACRE OF CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO NATIVES IN 1864 SAND CREEK
Silky cloth with raised design BROCADE
A Roman greeting or a soothing ointment SALVE
STRONG TISSUE CONNECTING BONES LIGAMENT
CONIC SECTION WITH TWO FOCAL POINTS ELLIPSE
TERRAIN OF MIXED WOODLAND AND PASTURE, SOME OF WHICH SLOWED THE PROGRESS OF ALLIED FORCES IN OPERATION OVERLORD BOCAGE
WORDSWORTH POEM POPULARLY KNOWN AS DAFFODILS I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
VARIETY OF WINTER-RIPENING PEAR NELIS
2007 WAR DRAMA STARRING JAMES MCAVOY AND KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, ADAPTED FROM AN IAN MCEWAN NOVEL ATONEMENT
STATE CAPITAL OF MAINE AUGUSTA
LARGEST LIVING LIZARD SPECIES KOMODO DRAGON
TRURO, CHATHAM, AND BARNSTABLE ARE ON THIS PENINSULA CAPE COD
IN AMERICA, ANY FIZZY SOFT DRINK SODA
COMPANY FOR WHOSE FROZEN PEAS ADVERT PATSY KENSIT MADE A POPPING SOUND BIRDS EYE
US GOLFER WHO HIT THE HONORARY STARTING TEE SHOT OF THE US MASTERS FROM 1984 TO 2002 SAM SNEAD
THE OPPOSITE OF ZENITH NADIR
THE ____ IS BASED ON MEMOIRS OF GOVERNESS ANNA LEONOWENS KING AND I
RIVER WHICH FORMS PART OF THE BORDER BETWEEN GERMANY AND POLAND ODER
ACTRESS WHO PLAYED NEFER IN THE EGYPTIAN Bella Darvi
GOURD FRUIT WITH A STRIPED SKIN Ogen melon
1978 JOHN IRVING NOVEL, LATER A FILM STARRING ROBIN WILLIAMS The World According To Garp
Water-borne sheet detached from an ice field FLOE
A DECORATIVE FRILL AROUND THE NECK, ALSO A VARIETY OF SANDPIPER RUFF
DEVOTIONAL NAME FOR COMMUNION BREAD AND WINE blessed sacrament
To sing while rapidly switching from natural to falsetto YODEL
Capital of Australia's Victoria state MELBOURNE
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF CAMBODIA KHMER
ACTRESS WHO GAINED FAME AS A MEDIUM IN BLITHE SPIRIT Margaret Rutherford
EUROPEAN EXPLORER WHO DISCOVERED NEW ZEALAND ABEL TASMAN
CONNECTION USED TO ATTACH A HOSE TO A WATER MAIN HYDRANT
PHYLUM OF SEGMENTED WORMS ANNELIDA
ANOTHER NAME FOR AN ARTIST OR ILLUSTRATOR iconographer
100 cents in South Africa RAND
A former insurance clerk who won 1984 Olympic skating gold with a former policeman JAYNE TORVILL
An abbreviated word form such as photo or telly APOCOPE
Anglicised name for Mongolia’s capital ULAN BATOR
BBC comedy show famous for its “going out for an English” sketch Goodness Gracious Me
Clergyman ranked below priest DEACON
Cumbrian river which enters the Irish Sea at Workington DERWENT
'And, like the baseless ____ of this vision / The cloud-capped towers …' (The Tempest) FABRIC
“With maximum effort”, referring to old technology FULL STEAM AHEAD
“At the present moment, the whole ____’s lit up. When I say ‘lit up’ I mean lit up by fairy lamps” (Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Woodrooffe, in a notorious radio broadcast) FLEET
Father McKenzie is also named in this Beatles song ELEANOR RIGBY
Of a payment, made with no acceptance of liability EX GRATIA
To stop a sailing vessel’s progress HEAVE TO
This instrument of Austria and Switzerland inspired a theme in the finale of Brahms’s first symphony ALPENHORN
Small marsupial made popular in a game, originally for the Sony PlayStation BANDICOOT
Release eggs OVULATE
Punk band featuring guitarist (formerly bassist) Captain Sensible THE DAMNED
Popular music pianist born Trevor Stanford Russ Conway
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s 1960s TV show NOT ONLY BUT ALSO
Pauley Perrette plays gothic forensic scientist ____ Sciuto in NCIS ABBY
Owner of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire HESTON BLUMENTHAL
URCHIN RAGAMUFFIN
AREA OF CENTRAL ASIA TO THE EAST OF THE CASPIAN SEA TURKESTAN
Main antagonist of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy STEERPIKE
Henchman of Auric Goldfinger ODDJOB