The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 11 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The state song of Connecticut YANKEE DOODLE
Star Wars character who is 900 years old when he dies YODA
Two people are ____ when directly facing each other to fight or argue toe-to-toe
Spanish director Pedro ____’s first film to gain international attention was Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ALMODOVAR
Garden plant introduced to Europe from China in the early 19th century TEA ROSE
HAVING, OR SEEMING TO HAVE, WINDOWS OR SIMILAR FEATURES FENESTRATE
Chief Inspector Roderick ____ appears in all the detective novels of Ngaio Marsh ALLEYN
Having an intestine separate from the body’s outer wall ENTERATE
Person born in a period of up to 18 years starting in 1946 BABY BOOMER
Legume used to make tofu and tempeh SOYA BEAN
Nation where 1,000 baizas make a rial OMAN
IN EAST ANGLIA, STRONG BEER; MORE GENERALLY, A DRINK CONTAINING BEATEN EGG NOG
Event such as Red Nose Day or Children in Need TELETHON
Worldwide discussion group set up in 1980, with groups including rec.puzzles.crosswords and alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die USENET
London’s Parliament Hill is a popular location for ____ kite-flying
Mollie ____ played Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served? SUGDEN
The second to speak of two characters in Through the Looking Glass, often depicted as 24 TWEEDLEDEE
US state with “Famous Potatoes” on its licence plates IDAHO
A mineral like limestone, and a Triumph car of the 1970s DOLOMITE
ROSA ____ IS POSSIBLY THE MOST FAMOUS BUS PASSENGER IN HISTORY PARKS
A SIMPLE SIX-HOLED WOODWIND INSTRUMENT PENNY WHISTLE
Country house and deer park near Sevenoaks KNOLE
Where livestock are kept while being fattened for market FEEDLOT
The “three baskets” of Buddhist scripture TRIPITAKA
The venue for Crufts dog show since 1991 NEC
To speak proudly about boast of
The poet Federico Garcia ____ was killed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War LORCA
Since 2013, nationality of Tina Turner SWISS
Incentives to join companies GOLDEN HELLOS
BEATLES SONG BY JOHN LENNON, ABOUT HIS MOTHER JULIA
One who denies or opposes NAYSAYER
Detective fiction author who wrote The History of Spiritualism in 1926 ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
British surgeon who pioneered the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic JOSEPH LISTER
Britain’s longest ____ crosses the Humber SUSPENSION BRIDGE
____ Reader is free software used for displaying PDF files ACROBAT
SOMEONE WHO KNOWINGLY HELPS SOMEONE WHO HAS COMMITTED AN ARRESTABLE OFFENCE accessory after the fact
British city with a real rather than fictional Albert Square MANCHESTER
Czech Republic’s second-largest city, and Moravia’s largest BRNO
Norman and Sir are the main characters in this Ronald Harwood play THE DRESSER
Make an optimistic (or possibly pessimistic) guess OVERESTIMATE
A LINE ON A MAP JOINING PLACES OF EQUAL TEMPERATURE ISOTHERM
VERY SMALL AND GREATLY REDUCED COPY OF TEXT OR AN IMAGE MICRODOT
According to the King James Bible, the patriarch ____ did not die but was “translated” ENOCH
A pair of one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both set in the same Bournemouth hotel SEPARATE TABLES
A drinking vessel often used as a sporting trophy LOVING CUP
1949 film with nine roles played by Alec Guinness KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS
“… if we desire to secure peace, […] it must be known that we are ____ ready for war” (George Washington) AT ALL TIMES
“And over the ____s […] that were in the low plain was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash” (1 Chronicles 27:28) OLIVE TREE
1986 BBC TV series (later a book) in which Beryl Bainbridge looked at the lives of families in a divided nation Forever England
A semisolid lump DOLLOP
A figure of early Christianity, sometimes identified as the son of Alphaeus James the Less
Partial australopithecine skeleton, found in Ethiopia in 1974 LUCY
Skimble-scamble, all of a ramble INCOHERENT
“For the love of ____” is the correct version of a common quotation from the First Epistle to Timothy money is the root of all evil
1929 murder of seven members of a Chicago gang St Valentine's Day Massacre
____ may be monozygotic or dizygotic TWINS