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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 09
The Times Specialist
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FOODSTUFF USED IN PINA COLADAS AND SOME CURRY RECIPES
COCONUT CREAM
Village at the southern end of the Pennine Way
EDALE
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT NEGOTIATED IN THE 1960S, INTENDED TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Non-Proliferation Treaty
A NUMBER USED TO INDICATE THE POSITION OF A POINT
co-ordinate
THE MOST COMMON ESTER IN WINE, ALSO USED TO DECAFFEINATE COFFEE BEANS
ETHYL ACETATE
____ LAW WAS A LEGAL CODE, OFTEN EQUATED WITH THE EXCLUSION OF WOMEN FROM INHERITANCE
SALIC
SHERLOCK HOLMES MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE IN ____
A STUDY IN SCARLET
ALLITERATIVE SCOTS NAME FOR A HANGING CLOCK WITH EXPOSED PENDULUM AND WEIGHTS
wag-at-the-wa
BEAST CAPTURED BY HERCULES IN THE FOURTH OF HIS LABOURS
ERYMANTHIAN BOAR
BETTE DAVIS STARRED IN THIS 1948 FILM ABOUT JOURNALISTS COVERING A WEDDING
JUNE BRIDE
SEA STACK IN THE ORKNEY ISLANDS, FIRST CLIMBED IN 1966
OLD MAN OF HOY
TO PLACE THINGS CLOSE TOGETHER OR SIDE BY SIDE
JUXTAPOSE
TO CONVERT FROM LIQUID TO VAPOUR AND BACK AGAIN
DISTIL
FERRERO PRODUCT WHICH APPARENTLY USES A QUARTER OF THE WORLD SUPPLY OF HAZELNUTS
NUTELLA
BARONESS ____ WROTE THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL NOVELS
ORCZY
ORNAMENTAL LOOP, ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO PREVENT LOSS OF A WEAPON IN BATTLE
SWORD KNOT
EUROPEAN NATION WHOSE FLAG HAS BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE STRIPES
ESTONIA
____ AND THE TROSSACHS NATIONAL PARK WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2002
LOCH LOMOND
THE PART OF THE THROAT ABOVE THE LARYNX AND OESOPHAGUS
PHARYNX
THE CAPITAL OF NIGER
NIAMEY
GARY ____ PLAYED WINSTON CHURCHILL IN DARKEST HOUR
OLDMAN
1980S POP MOVEMENT WHICH INCLUDED DURAN DURAN
NEW ROMANTIC
CONTESTED AT THE 1912 OLYMPICS, A VARIANT OF SOME THROWING EVENTS, POSSIBLY FAVOURING AMBIDEXTROUS ATHLETES
BOTH HANDS
WADING BIRD NAMED AFTER ITS FEEDING TECHNIQUE
TURNSTONE
COASTAL DROWNED RIVER VALLEY, SUCH AS MILFORD HAVEN
RIA
SWORD WITH A SHARPLY POINTED BLADE, USED TO PIERCE ARMOUR
ESTOC
CARD GAME IN WHICH YOU MAY HAVE TO LIE
CHEAT
THIS IS OFTEN RECOMMENDED AS A GOOD WAY TO PACK A FORMAL JACKET IN A SUITCASE
INSIDE OUT
MANY ____ ARE PRODUCED WITH PENICILLIUM ROQUEFORTI
blue cheeses
Descriptive name for realgar, an ore of a toxic element
red arsenic
HUMAN BEINGS HAVE FIVE ____ ORGANS, TWO IN PAIRS
SENSORY
PDQ ____ IS A COMPOSER INVENTED BY MUSICAL SATIRIST PETER SCHICKELE
BACH
LACK OF BONHOMIE
ALOOFNESS
THIS IS AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT
KOAN
The title of this Somerset Maugham novel is a quotation from Twelfth Night
CAKES AND ALE
Sculptor of the bronze David in Florence’s Bargello
DONATELLO
CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain five times
timothy Taylor's Landlord
The gravitational equilibrium by which the earth’s crust “floats” over its mantle
ISOSTASY
Faye Dunaway’s co-star and producer in Bonnie and Clyde
WARREN BEATTY
Words attributed to Caesar, crossing the Rubicon
THE DIE IS CAST
What Hansel and Gretel left behind (unsuccessfully) to help them find their way home from the forest
BREADCRUMBS
Beetle that was sacred in ancient Egypt
SCARAB
To pass, survive or win, but only just
SQUEAK THROUGH
Athlete who won the javelin and 80m hurdles at the 1932 Olympics, and under her married name, three US Women’s Opens in golf
BABE DIDRIKSON
Sicilian dish usually including aubergines, celery, onions, capers, raisins and vinegar
CAPONATA
Glam rock band whose Lonely This Christmas was the UK’s Christmas No 1 in 1974
MUD
“The ____ from the palace has the brew that is true” (Danny Kaye, in The Court Jester)
CHALICE
A theatre’s ____ bar serves interval drinks
CRUSH
George and Ira Gershwin’s I Got ____ was written for the musical Girl Crazy
RHYTHM
“Finding bad ____ for what one believes for other bad ____ — that’s philosophy” (Aldous Huxley)
REASONS
Suite for piano, considered Isaac Albeniz’s masterpiece
IBERIA
Surface-ripened cheese, named after an East Prussia town (now called Sovetsk)
TILSIT
Deborah ____ has been a Dragons’ Den investor since 2006
MEADEN
“Our people grumbled for more ____ and washing machines” (Russian ambassador, in Doctor Strangelove)
NYLONS
Based in Switzerland, the world’s largest food company
NESTLE
An adjectival meaning of “desert”
UNINHABITED