The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 05 06

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