The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 11 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Main protagonist of The Hunger Games KATNISS EVERDEEN
IN GREEK MYTH, A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH KILLED BY A DISCUS THROWN BY APOLLO, HIS LOVER HYACINTH
ROMAN SENATOR WHO PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR Marcus Brutus
Charles Dickens novel divided into five “staves” A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A dietary ____ deficiency is the main cause of goitre IODINE
SMALLEST OF THE GREAT LAKES ONTARIO
THE PERSON WHO HAD TO BE TOLD ABOUT THE 1986 PRIVATISATION OF BRITISH GAS SID
LIKE MISTLETOE ON TREES PARASITIC
Foodstuff possibly named after a Belgian city or region PATE
Connection between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara BOSPHORUS
Author of The Blue Flower PENELOPE FITZGERALD
County whose Wikipedia article currently says “Not to be confused with South Essex” EAST SUSSEX
Former Chelsea player-manager who made 66 appearances for the Netherlands RUUD GULLIT
Hilary Mantel novel, a follow-up to Wolf Hall, and winner of the 2012 Man Booker prize BRING UP THE BODIES
Informally, members of his party opposed to reforms started by Neil Kinnock Old Labour
THE SON OF AN AUSTRIAN EMPEROR ARCHDUKE
Informally, remove oneself from an online notification list UNSUB
London Weekend Television sitcom starring John Alderton as schoolteacher Bernard Hedges PLEASE SIR
Margherita Taylor is the newest host of this BBC property programme ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY
In Greek cuisine, a meat stew with onions STIFADO
Series of eight paintings by William Hogarth A Rake's Progress
Small restaurant which, traditionally, brewed its own beer BRASSERIE
In American whiskeys, the main alternative to bourbon RYE
The S in HTTPS SECURE
Hungary’s 27 per cent is currently the highest standard rate of ____ in Europe VAT
To fall asleep, diminish, or leave someone at the airport? DROP OFF
Germany’s largest urban area RUHR
Final game or match which settles the outcome DECIDER
Writer, philosopher and, for 51 years, partner of Jean-Paul Sartre SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Yuri is the first name of the protagonist in this Boris Pasternak novel DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Actress who appeared in many Bob Hope and Bing Crosby “road” movies DOROTHY LAMOUR
One of the three Theban plays by Sophocles OEDIPUS REX
Real Madrid manager who resigned after their 2018 UEFA Champions League victory ZINEDINE ZIDANE
Popular name for Phaseolus coccineus, grown ornamentally and for food SCARLET RUNNER
Expression like “Ten items or less” or “you should of said” SOLECISM
Parasol which can also be used as an umbrella en-tout-cas
Owing (rent, for example) IN ARREARS
Open country or grassland of South Africa VELD
Achieves something — often one of many similar achievements notches up
Epithet for Peter Walker in the 1980s Conservative party WET
A sliding step in ballet GLISSADE
Jean-François Champollion is best-known as the ____ of Egyptian Hieroglyphs DECIPHERER
1968 Charles Portis novel and a 1969 John Wayne film TRUE GRIT
The alligator pear AVOCADO
“The nodding ____ bends before the wind” (The Fear of Flowers, John Clare) ox-eye
Actor noted for his roles as serial killer Freddy Krueger ROBERT ENGLUND
Classical Latin name for Ireland HIBERNIA
Name of the ranch, and its owner, reached by Chuck Noland at the end of Cast Away (2000 film) BETTINA
Colloquial name for concrete obstacles intended to hinder the progress of tanks DRAGONS TEETH
The European ____ is a civil rights treaty, created in 1961 SOCIAL CHARTER
Title of songs by Pink Floyd and the Spice Girls STOP
Tom ___ starred in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence CONTI
Vega is the brightest star in this small northern constellation LYRA
“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to ____” (Voltaire) ERROR
Author of The Good Soldier FORD MADOX FORD
Part of a series appearing on the internet rather than broadcast or cable TV WEBISODE
A small German hotel GASTHAUS
2017 Pixar film based on Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday COCO