The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 05 13

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