The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 01 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Self-centred folk EGOISTS
Seaport on the coast of western Syria, opposite the northeastern tip of Cyprus LATAKIA
A PORTION OF A SHARE ISSUE TRANCHE
River which flows through Assam and Bangladesh BRAHMAPUTRA
Trademark for reflecting roadstud invented by Percy Shaw CATSEYE
The vicissitudes of life UPS AND DOWNS
Possible dish after prawn cocktail at a 1970s dinner party CHICKEN KIEV
The paper crane is the best-known creation in this art ORIGAMI
SEE 19 KOREA
Adios, hwyl fawr or arrivederci GOODBYE
1940 western in which Jean Arthur plays the first female settler in Tucson ARIZONA
Old Testament scholars and teachers of the Jewish law SCRIBES
Oscar ____ was the lyricist for Showboat and Oklahoma! HAMMERSTEIN
The Three Sisters are ridges on the southern side of this Scottish valley GLEN COE
FEMALE FILM STAR LEADING LADY
Bowlers such as Chandrasekhar and Anil Kumble Leg-spinners
British nurse, executed in Brussels in 1915 EDITH CAVELL
Capital of Belgium’s Wallonia region NAMUR
David Bowie’s song about Major Tom, released in 1969 SPACE ODDITY
15TH AND 23RD CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU
Central American capital city severely damaged by earthquakes in 1931 and 1972 MANAGUA
Debussy checked proof copies of La Mer at Eastbourne’s ____ Hotel GRAND
One of two conflicts over the mastery of South Africa BOER WAR
Novel about middle-class life by Joanna Trollope or Mary Wesley, say AGA SAGA
Melvyn ____ is the presenter of In Our Time on Radio 4 BRAGG
Narrator of Moby-Dick ISHMAEL
GARLIC MAYONNAISE AIOLI
County town, formerly a major centre of shoe-making NORTHAMPTON
Historically, the USA’s busiest immigrant inspection station, opened in 1892 ELLIS ISLAND
Ecuador’s currency before it was replaced with the US dollar in 2000 SUCRE
Hygienic equipment for babies’ feeding bottles sterilisers
Historically, a territorial area around Dublin or Calais ENGLISH PALE
Composer of Holberg Suite and Wedding Day at Troldhaugen GRIEG
Home ground of the only amateur club in the Scottish Professional Football League HAMPDEN PARK
In grammar, locative and vocative CASES
Islands, the southernmost part of the continental USA FLORIDA KEYS
Jane ____, the only female film director to receive the Palme D’Or — for The Piano, in 1993 CAMPION
London's first suburban cemetery, opened in 1832, where Wilkie Collins and Decimus Burton are buried KENSAL GREEN
WHERE GIGI HADID, ADRIANA LIMA AND LIU WEN PERFORM CATWALK
DISTANCE BETWEEN CAMERA LENS AND FILM OR IMAGE SENSOR FOCAL LENGTH
WINE FROM NORTHERN SPAIN RIOJA
Small harpsichords with one manual SPINETS
Thick soup of leeks, potatoes, and cream, served cool VICHYSSOISE
Branch of Tynwald consisting of 24 elected members HOUSE OF KEYS
Gene ____ played obsessive cop Popeye Doyle HACKMAN
Geoff Capes, Tomasz Majewski and Valerie Adams shotputters
GOLD COIN FIRST ISSUED IN VENICE IN 1284 DUCAT
SEE 3 SHEARER
Unsparing critics DUTCH UNCLES
The first production of this 1973 Peter Shaffer play starred Alec McCowen as Dysart and Peter Firth as Alan Strang EQUUS
Theology promoting reconciliation between churches IRENICS
Uncontrolled expansion of a city URBAN SPRAWL
Yellow-flowered weed, also called dog standard RAGWORT
ROY ____, CAPTAIN OF MANCHESTER UNITED FROM 1997 TO 2005 KEANE
A hole in the wall CASH MACHINE
Suet pudding containing dried fruit SPOTTED DICK
WATER LILY, ASSOCIATED WITH A POSITION AND EATERS LOTUS
&2 Ballerina star of the 1948 film The Red Shoes and wife of broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy [Two words] MOIRA
____ declared independence from Ethiopia in 1993 ERITREA
A bundle of arrows SHEAF
A ____ triangle has unequal sides and angles SCALENE
Although it is one of two national official languages, Arabic is not used in ____ passports ISRAELI
&16 Juche is the state ideology of this nation [Two words] NORTH
Anthony Joshua’s current boxing division HEAVYWEIGHT