The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 07 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
THE ____ PILES WERE NUCLEAR REACTORS BUILT AS PART OF THE UK'S ATOMIC BOMB PROJECT AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR WINDSCALE
UPPER PART OF A PILLAR, SUPPORTING AN ARCH IMPOST
A SYMPTOM OF RABIES HYDROPHOBIA
THE JAPANESE DECORATIVE ART OF FLOWER ARRANGEMENT IKEBANA
A legal or parliamentary holiday RECESS
BIG TOP CIRCUS TENT
MIKE ____ IS THE US VICE-PRESIDENT AND A FORMER GOVERNOR OF INDIANA PENCE
THE ____ IS A US NEWSPAPER OR A JOHN PHILIP SOUSA MARCH WASHINGTON POST
THOUSANDTH ANNIVERSARIES millenaries
WALT ____ WROTE THE POETRY COLLECTION LEAVES OF GRASS WHITMAN
____'S NOYES FLUDDE IS BASED ON A CHESTER MYSTERY PLAY BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Insect genus including many agricultural pests APHIS
Medieval musical instrument, usually with three strings REBEC
Musical term for 'very' or 'much' MOLTO
Novel narrated by Gilbert Markham about his quest for Helen Graham’s hand in marriage THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL
Morarji ___ was prime minister of India, 1977-9 DESAI
Pasta 'quills' PENNE
Record producer Phil ____ developed the 'Wall of Sound' style of music production SPECTOR
See 4A GERMAN
The beginning of George Washington's apocryphal admission about a cherry tree I CANNOT TELL A LIE
Lord ____, a caricature of an English nobleman in the play Our American Cousin, gave his name to long sideburns DUNDREARY
The Jungle Book’s 'Lone Wolf' AKELA
The makers of 007’s DB5 ASTON MARTIN
The Siegfried ____ was Wagner’s gift to his wife, Cosima, on her 33rd birthday in 1870 IDYLL
The USA’s 'Pine Tree State' MAINE
Town centre musicians Street band
Volume two of JS Bach’s Clavier-Übung contained the ____ and the Overture in the French Style ITALIAN CONCERTO
____ ticket, two ideal candidates at an election DREAM
German-born political theorist Hannah ____ wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism ARENDT
Future seasonal weather — according to Keats, maybe Autumn mists
Dick ____, able seaman in HMS Pinafore DEADEYE
Fog coming inland from the coast SEA FRET
Italian tenor who recorded Perfect Symphony with Ed Sheeran last year ANDREA BOCELLI
Exercises designed to achieve bodily fitness and grace of movement CALLISTHENICS
GREEK GODDESS OF PEACE IRENE
TREACHEROUS KING, BOUND BY HERMES TO A WHEEL OF FIRE IXION
Palladian-style house in Wiltshire, famed for its gardens STOURHEAD
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, singer and civil rights activist NINA SIMONE
In Zambia, 100 ngwees KWACHA
Holst’s tone poem ____ Heath is subtitled 'A Homage to Thomas Hardy' EGDON
Bearable, in old slang tol-lol
At various times, a duchy, kingdom and province in what is now northwestern Germany WESTPHALIA
Alaskan city which gives its name to a variety of spruce SITKA
1963 Bill Naughton play, also a film starring Michael Caine ALFIE
1952 musical rom-com depicting 1920s Hollywood, choreographed by and starring Gene Kelly Singin' in the Rain
'Wimbledon' is the All England Lawn Tennis and ____ Club CROQUET
& 43D. Language of works by Gottfried von Strassburg and Walther von der Vogelweide MIDDLE HIGH
IMPRISONMENT FOR POLITICAL OR MILITARY REASONS INTERNMENT
Historic alternative name for Shropshire SALOP
Hampshire location of the former RAF Coastal Command HQ, and the Hovercraft Museum Lee-on-the-Solent
Glamorous star of 1930s films who retired in 1941 and became a recluse GRETA GARBO
In English common law, the parts of a judgement which are not ratio decidendi OBITER DICTA
Part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument since 1965 ELLIS ISLAND
Essex town where Courtaulds opened a silk mill BRAINTREE
Extra turns for weaker players in 49 BISQUES
The biological family of 'true frogs' RANIDAE
DESIGNER OF THE WILLOW TEAROOMS IN GLASGOW'S SAUCHIEHALL STREET CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH
Dungeons or cells with access only via the ceiling OUBLIETTES