The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 05 13

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