The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 06 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
THE ____ STONE PROVIDED THE KEY TO THE DECIPHERING OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXTS ROSETTA
Outstanding, like famous entertainers STELLAR
VANESSA REDGRAVE STARRED IN THIS 1968 FILM ABOUT A PIONEER OF MODERN DANCE ISADORA
DARK AND GLOOMY, LIKE A RIVER IN HADES STYGIAN
MARSHLAND PLANT USED AS A VEGETABLE SINCE ANTIQUITY CELERY
TITLE BESTOWED ON MEGHAN MARKLE ON HER WEDDING DAY DUCHESS OF SUSSEX
The hod carrier who dies in James Joyce's final novel FINNEGAN
The strait of ____, location of Charybdis in The Odyssey MESSINA
WEST AFRICAN COUNTRY OR THE RIVER THAT FORMS ITS BOUNDARY WITH MAURITANIA SENEGAL
THE CITY WHERE JOHN OF GAUNT WAS BORN GHENT
Peat moss SPHAGNUM
MEMBER OF A RELIGION REGARDING HAILE SELASSIE AS A MANIFESTATION OF GOD RASTAFARIAN
Items to be crossed out DELENDA
Presteigne was the county town of this former Welsh county RADNORSHIRE
CATS WITH A LONG BODY AND A SHORT BROWN COAT WITH BLACK OR DARK BROWN MARKINGS ABYSSINIANS
CITY ON THE RHINE; ITS GOTHIC CATHEDRAL WAS THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD, 1880-4 COLOGNE
A possibly easier alternative to the original version of a musical passage OSSIA
Broadway or the West End, eg theatreland
Former mining town in the Somerset coalfield Midsomer Norton
German composer whose first symphony took him 21 years to write BRAHMS
Large bird of prey with yellow-tipped head feathers GOLDEN EAGLE
British order of knighthood founded by Queen Victoria in 1861, but obsolescent since 1948 STAR OF INDIA
About six miles northwest of Ullapool, these include Tanera Mor and Tanera Beg Summer Isles
'One a penny, two a penny' pastry in a nursery rhyme HOT CROSS BUN
Max Beerbohm novel, featuring mass drowning in Oxford's Eights Week Zuleika Dobson
A possible home for a billionaire TAX HAVEN
People given to indulgence in pleasure and luxury Lotus-eaters
A nickname of the state of Virginia OLD DOMINION
Linen-weaver who adopts Eppie in a George Eliot novel SILAS MARNER
Rouen’s département Seine-Maritime
A triangle with angles of 60 degrees is ____ EQUILATERAL
Large black and tan rough-haired terrier AIREDALE
Football stadium or cricket ground in Manchester OLD TRAFFORD
Chancellor of the exchequer from 1983 to 1989 NIGEL LAWSON
Cask-conditioned beers REAL ALES
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is a well-known example of this art form OBJET TROUVE
Martin Freeman played ____ Baggins in The Hobbit films BILBO
Successor to Harold Macmillan as prime minister Alec Douglas-Home
____; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor HMS PINAFORE
The first Bond film to star Pierce Brosnan GOLDENEYE
Jean Simmons plays the title role in this 1954 historical movie, with Marlon Brando as Napoleon DESIREE
Worldwide crime-fighting organisation INTERPOL
Italy’s most-visited art gallery, in Florence UFFIZI
Type of cormorant which is not seen on inland water SHAG
This may be plain, keema, or peshwari NAAN
The main London residence of the monarch, from 1698 to 1837 St James's Palace
Nickname for British commandos or US special forces GREEN BERETS
Privates ____, 1977 farce (later filmed) about camp song and dance shows in late 1940s Singapore ON PARADE
Rachel ____, Countdown's 'numbers girl' RILEY
US TV western series whose title sequence included a burning map BONANZA
In Il Trovatore, ____ is courted by the Count di Luna, but in love with Manrico LEONORA
Glenda ____, actress and former Labour MP JACKSON
Saxony's capital, on the Elbe DRESDEN
States which are weaker than they seem PAPER TIGERS
____ Dawg, US cartoon series with catchphrases 'Just a cotton-picking moment' and 'Dagnabbit Muskie' DEPUTY
HOUSING FOR A SHIP'S COMPASS BINNACLE
Move them to change aims to ensure the result you want GOALPOSTS
THIS FISH IS SALTED AND SMOKED TO PRODUCE A BLOATER HERRING