The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 05 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Country of northwest Africa, its capital Nouakchott MAURITANIA
BELGIAN DEFENDER WHO JOINED TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR IN 2015 Toby Alderweireld
REPUBLIC BORDERED BY LIBYA, NIGER, AND SUDAN CHAD
AFRICAN COUNTRY WHOSE CAPITAL IS ACCRA GHANA
A young herring SILD
____ drinks are used to replace minerals and salt lost by sweating ISOTONIC
An orange roan is a type of ____ COCKER SPANIEL
Arabian kingdom thought to be modern day Yemen SHEBA
German equivalent of 'that is' das heisst
One of two second-row players in a rugby union scrum LOCK
Actress who gained fame as the sitcom character Barbara Good Felicity Kendal
Enchantress of Greek myth who turned sailors into swine CIRCE
Word for 'outstanding' thought to date from around 2003 but popularised by Perez Hilton in 2009 AMAZEBALLS
In zoology, to use arms for locomotion BRACHIATE
A title of Riccardo in Verdi’s opera A Masked Ball EARL OF WARWICK
Cricketers like Alan Knott, Tariq Iqbal, and Thomas Box WICKETKEEPERS
Probiotic drink containing lactobacillus casei, launched in Japan in 1935 yakult
FOOT-OPERATED LEVER TREADLE
SPANISH TOWN JUST ACROSS THE BORDER FROM GIBRALTAR La Linea
COCKTAIL MADE WITH VODKA AND ORANGE JUICE SCREWDRIVER
THE CLASS OF TAPEWORMS cestoda
Political style introduced under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown NEW LABOUR
Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc STEVE WOZNIAK
1963 film starring Shelley Winters, based on a Jean Genet play THE BALCONY
Monterrey is the capital of this Mexican state NUEVO LEON
The original family name of Darth Vader SKYWALKER
Author of The Moonstone WILKIE COLLINS
Hapless fictional character played by Simon Jones, Chris Langham, and Martin Freeman ARTHUR DENT
Group of people serving a (usually) important person RETINUE
SOREN ____ IS CONSIDERED A FOUNDER OF EXISTENTIALISM KIERKEGAARD
UNINTENDED, ACCIDENTAL INADVERTENT
ARCHAIC TERM FOR AN UNSPECIFIED DAY IN THE NEAR FUTURE odd-come-shortly
AN AMPHIBIAN OF THE ANURA ORDER FROG
SOUTH AFRICAN DISH OF CURRIED MINCE AND VARIOUS OTHER INGREDIENTS BOBOTIE
HOME OF THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB ST ANDREWS
Applied retrospectively (of a law) EX POST FACTO
SEVERE INABILITY TO DO SIMPLE ARITHMETIC, CAUSED BY CEREBRAL IMPAIRMENT DYSCALCULIA
TYPE OF NECKWEAR NAMED AFTER SLAVIC MERCENARIES OF THE 17TH CENTURY CRAVAT
Situation last declared in the UK by Edward Heath’s government State Of Emergency
Familiar alternative name for a German shepherd dog ALSATIAN
HORDEOLUM, A SWELLING OF THE EYELID STYE
The world’s first female president of a republic Isabel Peron
Wine of the Loire Valley, usually white SANCERRE
Area of dead tissue caused by loss of blood supply INFARCT
Adam ____, host of The Last Leg HILLS
ICE SKATING JUMP FROM ONE FOOT TO THE OTHER, INCLUDING A HALF TURN AXEL
Greek mathematician considered the father of geometry EUCLID
WHEN DESCRIBING CLOUD COVER, ONE EIGHTH OF THE SKY OKTA
Former teletext service of ITV and Channel 4 ORACLE
FORWARD PART OF A SHIP PROW
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia C S LEWIS
Harry Potter headmistress played by Maggie Smith Minerva McGonagall
Canine friend of Blue Peter presenter John Noakes SHEP
A TWO-MASTED BOAT AND AN ABBREVIATION OF AN ARMY RANK BRIG
'The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to ____ us' (The Tragedy of King Lear) PLAGUE
JOSEPH KESSELRING BLACK COMEDY PLAY ABOUT THE BREWSTER FAMILY ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Ireland’s Rockabill Island has the largest European colony of ____ terns ROSEATE
Informally, a black eye SHINER
COINED IN 1975, TERM FOR A WEALTHY CHELSEA RESIDENT SLOANE RANGER
Bob Seger single, from the album Beautiful Loser, a less common spelling of its subject KATMANDU