The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
An area which foreign aircraft, vessels etc may not enter EXCLUSION ZONE
Informally, a historic state which included Goa PORTUGUESE INDIA
GENERAL JAMES ____ DIED IN THE HOUR OF VICTORY, OVER THE FRENCH AT QUEBEC IN 1759 WOLFE
MILVUS MILVUS, A BIRD OF PREY EASILY RECOGNISED BY THE SHAPE OF ITS TAIL RED KITE
GERMAN MODEL WHO WAS THE FACE OF ARMANI AND CHANEL COSMETICS CLAUDIA WAGNER
2004 ALBUM, AND A SINGLE FROM IT, BY NATASHA BEDINGFIELD UNWRITTEN
Bird of prey which may be booted, fish, snake or harpy EAGLE
Detective fiction writer who dismissed W G Grace with his only first-class wicket ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Boat which, as a dugout, may be called a pirogue CANOE
Dutch footballer who won Champions League titles with Ajax, Real Madrid, and Milan CLARENCE SEEDORF
Nathan Zuckerman is the fictional alter ego of US novelist Philip ____ ROTH
The Greek goddess of discord, and the name of a jumping spider ERIS
Vaccine which some people believe causes autism MMR
The island of magicians in Gulliver’s Travels GLUBBDUBDRIB
“But you forget, sir, you only bought the property a year ago, and the ___ on your baronial castle is scarcely dry” (Pirates of Penzance) STUCCO
JACK ____ WROTE ON THE ROAD KEROUAC
THE FIRST EUROPEAN EXPLORER TO REACH INDIA BY SEA VASCO DA GAMA
EQUILATERAL QUADRILATERALS RHOMBI
PREFIX DENOTING THE WINDPIPE TRACHEO
An Ursuline or Poor Clare NUN
Harassed or pressured CHIVVIED
1982 Hot Chocolate single, reissued in 1993 and 1998 It Started With A Kiss
EGYPT, SYRIA, AND NORTH YEMEN CONFEDERATION, 1958-61 UNITED ARAB STATES
THE RIGHT-HAND PAGE OF AN OPEN BOOK RECTO
The Taj Mahal is located in this city AGRA
Official minutes of proceedings ACTA
A contribution of work or information INPUT
Tool used to remove weeds or break up soil HOE
INFORMATION GATHERED, PRIOR TO ANY PROCESSING TO REMOVE ANOMALIES RAW DATA
To improvise music, usually in a group JAM
Arthur ____ is the only black player to win a men’s singles Grand Slam title other than the French Open ASHE
NOTHING NADA
PATRONYMIC NAME FOR HERCULES, ALSO A GENUS OF AUSTRALASIAN MOTHS alcides
A German town hall rathaus
1994 HIT SINGLE BY THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES Midnight at the Oasis
Rank from which a soldier might be promoted to Hauptmann OBERLEUTNANT
Malaysian fashion designer noted for handmade women’s shoes JIMMY CHOO
1999 film starring Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall, with a title presumably inspired by a 1966 comedy film Guest House Paradiso
A French vineyard or group of vineyards, especially of high quality CRU
“[…] if a monster were out roaming northern England we’d have seen it on the ____” (An American Werewolf in London) TELLY
ACTOR WHO PLAYED POLICE CHIEF MARTIN BRODY IN JAWS AND JAWS 2 ROY SCHEIDER
2001 single by Sophie Ellis-Bextor Murder on the Dancefloor
Forename which originally meant the same as Lily SUSAN
Skin disease causing a flushed appearance acne rosacea
GRAIN FOR GRINDING GRIST
Italian island whose Blue Grotto attracts tourists CAPRI
Type of cabbage with curly leaves KALE
1975 Booker Prize winner for Heat and Dust RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA
A BATON USED BY A CONSTABLE RATHER THAN A CONDUCTOR TRUNCHEON
ABBREVIATED, THIS SINGLE-CURRENCY AGREEMENT IS A BIRD European Monetary Union
Snakeweed ADDERWORT
WORLDWIDE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, FOUNDED IN 1920 BY BROTHERS WHO OWNED THE PUERTO RICO TELEPHONE COMPANY ITT
THE UNIT FOR MEASURING DOSES OF X-RAYS ROENTGEN
ALLOY OF COPPER AND GOLD USED IN JAPANESE DECORATION SHAKUDO
IRISH TOWN ON THE RIVER BOYNE DROGHEDA
The introduction to a discourse EXORDIUM
Made without machinery HANDCRAFTED
MYTHOLOGICAL HERO OF THE TROJAN WAR, A COUSIN OF ACHILLES AJAX
WITHDREW OR DIMINISHED RECEDED
“Fate cannot harm me, — I have ____ to-day” (Sydney Smith) DINED