The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 06 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
An archaic name for someone or something excellent NONESUCH
Old-fashioned question about courage MAN OR MOUSE
Registered brand name for yarn including metallic thread LUREX
Informally, fail to make the grade not cut it
Vitamin ____ cause diseases such as rickets or pellagra DEFICIENCIES
UK government ministry, 1968-88 — Norman Fowler was its longest-serving minister dhss
Bertie ___ managed Arsenal's 1971 double-winning team MEE
The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles SUKKOT
US actor whose first well-known role was in Thelma and Louise BRAD PITT
Under interrogation by the Queen of Hearts, the Hatter 'bit a large piece out of his ____ instead of the bread-and-butter' TEACUP
CORRIESHALLOCH GORGE IS A BOX ____ NEAR ULLAPOOL CANYON
London’s largest public square Lincoln's Inn Fields
The ____ is a 1972 film based on an HE Bates novella, starring Glenda Jackson, Brian Deacon and Oliver Reed Triple Echo
Chinese classic text based on 64 hexagrams, influential in 1960s counterculture I CHING
The Touch version of this media player is the only one still produced IPOD
City in Uruguay formerly known for meat processing FRAY BENTOS
A man with no name but many monuments UNKNOWN SOLDIER
A small boat, often with one rower SKIFF
One of two or more chemical compounds with the same formula but different atomic arrangements ISOMER
The most recent of seven ships called HMS ____ participated in the Falklands and Gulf wars FEARLESS
Very thin, owing to disease or starvation EMACIATED
Radio DJ Alan Freeman's nickname FLUFF
Jelly-like substance, used as a culture medium AGAR
Philosophical movement started in the 1920s and 1930s logical positivism
____ de morue is a Provençal dish of puréed salt cod, olive oil, bread, garlic and milk BRANDADE
Interval between the first two notes of the harmonic series OCTAVE
'I'll speak to it though hell itself should ____' (Hamlet, on his father's ghost) GAPE
A plane hired for short flights AIR TAXI
Edith Wharton novel, filmed in 1993 ETHAN FROME
Keith ____ is the TV alter ego of comedian Leigh Francis LEMON
Of music, fast and lively up-tempo
A clique or coterie in-group
Measure of vehicle weight used in designing new roads AXLE LOAD
ADVICE POSSIBLY APPLICABLE TO CROSSWORD-SOLVING PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
A T-cell or B-cell LYMPHOCYTE
First person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, in 1966-7 SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER
Youngest player in England's 1966 World Cup team ALAN BALL
Prestwick airport is a few miles north of this county town AYR
'Where'er I go, they shout 'Hello! ____?'' (Chorus of this music hall song) WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAT
THE MIDDLE SECTION OF A HUMAN FOOT INSTEP
City where England lost a 1970 World Cup quarter final LEON
In a Sergei Eisenstein film, Alexander ____ defends Novgorod against Teutonic knights nevsky
News agency based in Moscow TASS
An old name for the northern end of the world ULTIMA THULE
These are worth £200 on a standard British Monopoly board STATIONS
A SHEET OF MATERIAL PROTECTING A DOORWAY OR WINDOW FROM SUN OR RAIN AWNING
____'s Philippics were 14 speeches criticising Mark Antony CICERO
Spelt with nine U's and three A's, a 'triggerfish with a snout like a pig', Hawaii's state fish humuhumunukunukuapua'a
Bone injury often caused by a significant increase in exercise STRESS FRACTURE
Pub name linked with falconry bird in hand
Conservation organisation with an avocet in its emblem rspb
OPENED IN 1683, OXFORD'S ____ IS OUR OLDEST PUBLIC MUSEUM ASHMOLEAN
Chris ____ won 18 tennis grand-slam singles titles EVERT
The kind of knowledge that really is 'general' COMMON
American writer Maya ____'s first autobiographical work was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ANGELOU
To make (meat) more healthy but less tasty DEFAT
A female servant, or anyone doing menial work SKIVVY
THAT BEING THE CASE IF SO
Palace hiven to Henry VIII by Thomas Wolsey HAMPTON COURT
The Washington Square Arch is at the southern end of this New York street FIFTH AVENUE