The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 12 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A METHOD BY WHICH A GAMBLER HOPES TO GAIN AN ADVANTAGE OVER THE HOUSE SYSTEM
COMPOSER OF RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI RACHMANINOV
____ lynx is another name for a caracal DESERT
Compiler of the Younger 49D Snorri Sturluson
Common British butterflies — or Soviet officers? RED ADMIRALS
D H Lawrence’s closely autobiographical novel about the Morel family SONS AND LOVERS
Offenbach’s “Underworld” hero ORPHEUS
Weir of ____, Robert Louis Stevenson novel set in southern Scotland HERMISTON
Top of the Lake star, ____ Moss ELISABETH
Inhabitants of Timisoara, Ploiesti or Iasi, for example ROMANIANS
TEMPORARY PLACES TO SLEEP, COLLOQUIALLY CRASH PADS
THE THAMES TUNNEL, NOW USED BY THE EAST LONDON LINE, CONNECTS ____ AND WAPPING ROTHERHITHE
Its states include Haryana, Manipur and Tripura INDIA
Joseph’s younger son who received the principal blessing of his grandfather Jacob EPHRAIM
Rumpy or stumpy MANX CAT
MS CICCONE WHOSE LIKE A PRAYER ALBUM WAS RELEASED IN 1989 MADONNA
2017 WINNER OF THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF Sophie Faldo
Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel or Tara King AVENGER
Sports presenter who succeeded Richard Whiteley as host of Countdown in 2005 DES LYNAM
A PLAYER OF THIS INSTRUMENT MAY PRESS BUTTONS OR KEYS LIKE THOSE OF A PIANO ACCORDION
Famously armless statue of Aphrodite in the Louvre VENUS DE MILO
Ellis Bell EMILY BRONTE
____politik, German power politics MACHT
Female runner who had a 100% record until she was defeated by Hippomenes ATALANTA
British silver coins withdrawn from circulation in 1993 FLORINS
Dingwall was its county town ross and cromarty
Food which supposedly arouses one’s sexual appetite APHRODISIAC
Either of two medieval Icelandic anthologies EDDA
Traitors were hurled from the ____ rock on Rome’s Capitoline Hill TARPEIAN
REDRAW ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES SO AS TO GIVE ONE PARTY AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE GERRYMANDER
CAPITAL OF DOMINICA ROSEAU
EAST LONDON LOCATION OF A FORD FACTORY SINCE 1931 DAGENHAM
____ REID, CO-PRESENTER OF GOOD MORNING BRITAIN SINCE 2014 SUSANNA
TREE-DWELLING NOCTURNAL MADAGASCAN LEMUR WITH LONG THIN FINGERS aye-aye
REGALIA INCLUDING 23,578 GEMSTONES CROWN JEWELS
AFRICAN REPUBLIC WHICH UNDERWENT CIVIL WAR FROM 1992 TO 2002 SIERRA LEONE
Oxford University student from USA, Germany or the British Commonwealth RHODES SCHOLAR
Tail-ender sent in to bat when a wicket falls close to the end of a day’s play NIGHTWATCHMAN
US musical and comedy star associated with the song There’s No Business Like Show Business ETHEL MERMAN
____ HUSAIN, RADIO 4 TODAY PRESENTER SINCE 2013 MISHAL
“What we call ‘morals’ is simply blind ____ to words of command” (Havelock Ellis) OBEDIENCE
“I wanted your ____ verges / But you gave me the hard shoulder” (Adrian Maurice Henri) SOFT
____ recorded Elgar’s Violin Concerto when aged 16 in 1932 YEHUDI MENUHIN
A male hawk TIERCEL
The composer with the most pages in Nicholas Slonimsky’s Lexicon of Musical Invective WAGNER
Assigned delivery periods TIME SLOTS
Wartime farm workers LAND GIRLS
Where movies are edited Cutting room
The heavens streaked with long parallel white masses of cloud MACKEREL SKY
BBC rugby league commentator remembered for his “early bath” and “up and under” catchphrases Eddie Waring
Rev W Awdry’s tank engine THOMAS
Russian revolutionary, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879 LEON TROTSKY
Pact between the Vatican and a secular government CONCORDAT
MONETARY UNIT OF THAILAND, ONE HUNDREDTH OF A BAHT SATANG
A deed held by a third party, which takes effect when a specified condition is fulfilled ESCROW
Phil Redmond’s soap-opera set in Chester HOLLYOAKS
Poultry in Australia CHOOKS
Paracetamol, eg, in plain packaging with no branding GENERIC DRUG