The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 10 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A dolphin’s flipper or a duck’s wing FORELIMB
The orbital cavity EYE SOCKET
Former Hull City midfielder who joined Derby County for a second time in 2017 Tom Huddlestone
Music magazine which ceased publication in 2000 and was incorporated into NME Melody Maker
Informal description of “duple time” IN TWO
Alternative to “stock” as a name for the undealt part of the pack in card games TALON
Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008 Bertie Ahern
Labour MP for Hartlepool, 1992-2004 Peter Mandelson
Type of mirage, its name derived from Arthurian legend FATA MORGANA
Humanitarian sometimes called the “British Schindler” Sir Nicholas Winton
Philip Schofield played Thomas More in stage and film versions of Robert Bolt’s ____ A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Clothing retailer known as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland primark
Type of read-only memory which can be erased and overwritten EPROM
Wolfsbane, or the poison derived from it ACONITE
Sitcom in which the often mimicked “Ooh, Betty” was only said once Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Formed a luminous electrical discharge ARCED
Substance used in baking, and to treat indigestion BICARBONATE OF SODA
Player of a kind of saxophone often used by beginners ALTOIST
The clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol BOB CRATCHIT
“Well ____! … / There’s little comfort in the wise” (Rupert Brooke, in Tiare Tahiti) This Side of Paradise
Vague knowledge or suspicion INKLING
MORE SHY TIMIDER
Edible mushroom with honeycombed cap MOREL
Derived from a Latin word meaning white, a blank book for the collecting of photographs etc ALBUM
The Night Watch is one of ____’s best-known paintings REMBRANDT
In Greek myth, a son of Temenus, and the eponymous subject of a play by Euripides ARCHELAUS
Six of the poems used in Schubert’s Schwanengesang are by Heinrich ____ HEINE
Author of the Bryant & May detective stories Christopher Fowler
Barbadian singer with hits including Umbrella and Only Girl (In the World) RIHANNA
“Every artist was first an ____” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) AMATEUR
Country bordered by Nicaragua and Panama COSTA RICA
Formerly, a European who made a fortune in India NABOB
Ancient route from Rome to Brindisi VIA APPIA
Former company which made enamel paints used with model kits humbrol
Masculine given name in both Welsh and Japanese DAI
Electrically charged particles emitted by very hot material thermions
First two words of the hymn usually sung to the tune Eventide abide with
Budget flight operator based in Swords, Dublin RYANAIR
Old name for a domestic bovine animal NEAT
Wilhelm ____ discovered X-rays ROENTGEN
Captain Charles Edstaston is the central character of ____: Whom Glory Still Adores by George Bernard Shaw Great Catherine
Technical expert advising in a trial or inquiry ASSESSOR
Administers a drug, perhaps to enhance athletic performance DOPES
AARDVARKS ANTBEARS
“And every time I see you ____ / I’m such a happy individual” (You Make Me Feel So Young lyrics) GRIN
Russian historian and philosopher who championed reforms by Alexander II, including the emancipation of the serfs Boris Chicherin
Crème de ____ is a liqueur made from blackcurrants CASSIS
In this Oscar Wilde play, Mrs Erlynne is revealed to be the main protagonist’s mother, not a love rival Lady Windermere's Fan
The act of rowing, or associated equipment OARAGE
Samurai with no master; 1998 film starring Robert De Niro RONIN
Former long-distance runner who founded the Great North Run BRENDAN FOSTER
Feminist whose second daughter wrote Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft
Two-humped beast of burden native to the steppes of Central Asia BACTRIAN CAMEL
British First World War equivalent of one of the two dances in the Nato phonetic alphabet TOC
2009 historical novel by Hilary Mantel WOLF HALL
Named after the Latin name for Copenhagen, the last of the stable elements to be discovered HAFNIUM