The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 05 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Overseas department of France consisting mainly of the islands Basse-Terre and Grand-Terre GUADELOUPE
A London market, or profane language BILLINGSGATE
A policeman, informally in France FLIC
William Jennings ____ was the losing Democratic candidate in three US presidential elections BRYAN
BENIGN TUMOUR OF EPITHELIAL TISSUE WITH GLANDULAR ORIGIN AND/OR CHARACTERISTICS ADENOMA
First Soviet space station programme, 1971-86 SALYUT
Terry ____ was both captain and manager of Arsenal NEILL
Just after the boycotted 1980 Olympics, 100m winner Allan ____ beat the best Americans at a meeting in Koblenz WELLS
Medium-sized antelope of eastern and southern Africa IMPALA
Officer ____ was the main human character in Top Cat DIBBLE
Richard Doddridge ____ wrote Lorna Doone BLACKMORE
The 'black box' which is actually orange FLIGHT RECORDER
Euphemistically, reprobate no angel
Hero of Greek myth, transformed into a stag and killed by his own hounds after seeing Artemis naked ACTAEON
Precocious 18th-century poet who committed suicide aged 17 Thomas Chatterton
Game usually played with 144 tiles mah-jongg
The 1970 England World Cup squad’s No 1 hit Back Home
A haddock as prepared in Arbroath SMOKIE
Proverbial warning about unnecessary investigation CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT
PESTO INGREDIENT PINE NUTS
EMPEROR OF JAPAN FOR MORE THAN HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY HIROHITO
A manoeuvre placing someone wrongly in the blame stitch-up
EastEnders character from October 1994 until he was killed off in August 2008 wellard
HOST CITY OF THE 1952 WINTER OLYMPICS OSLO
In boxing, a wild swinging punch HAYMAKER
German dramatist Frank ____’s best-known plays were the basis of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu WEDEKIND
NARGHILE AND SHEESHA ARE OTHER NAMES FOR THIS PIPE HOOKAH
A meat and vegetable stew, especially one with sauce added just before cooking ends RAGOUT
Instrument with tuned metal bars and resonating tubes VIBRAPHONE
'____, I die a little' (Cole Porter song lyric) Every Time We Say Goodbye
Bird with distinctive ear tufts EAGLE OWL
Corsica’s largest city, where Napoleon was born AJACCIO
London shopping centre which opened in 1819 Burlington Arcade
Nation bordered by Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin TOGO
The three-tiered version of this item is often used for afternoon tea CAKE STAND
The enemy of 'Billy Yank' in the American civil war JOHNNY REB
William ____ is best known for the book Rural Rides COBBETT
VITAMIN B3 NIACIN
'His ____ is easy' is the chorus ending part one of Handel’s Messiah YOKE
The oldest living former world chess champion Boris Spassky
IN FRENCH, A FLASH OF LIGHTNING; IN ENGLISH, A CAKE FILLED WITH CREAM ECLAIR
Apocryphal book about a religious Israelite and (mostly) his son TOBIT
Apfelwein is the German version of this drink CIDER
WINDSOR DAVIES AND DONALD SINDEN PLAYED RIVAL ANTIQUE DEALERS IN THE SITCOM NEVER THE ____ TWAIN
The parasite that causes scabies ITCH MITE
SELECTED AS A MEMBER OF A JURY EMPANELLED
North American equivalent of 'grill' BROIL
'Winning is a ____. Unfortunately so is losing.' (Vince Lombardi) HABIT
Dry white wine from Italy’s Veneto region SOAVE
A description of most trees at this time of year IN LEAF
ENGLISH MONARCH WHO MET FRANCIS I OF FRANCE AT THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD IN 1520 HENRY THE EIGHTH
Of a statistical distribution, asymmetrical SKEWED
'Paddy’s milestone' off the coast of South Ayrshire AILSA CRAIG
Athyrium filix-femina, a plant found in shady woodlands LADY FERN
Synthetic polymer patented by DuPont in September 1938 NYLON
French poet born Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky Guillaume Apollinaire
THE POET AMONG THE THREE FOUNDERS OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Island where British-style pillar and telephone boxes are painted blue GUERNSEY
A rugby union team’s ____ flanker usually wears number 7 OPENSIDE
A tractor unit and multiple trailers ROAD TRAIN