The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Greek letter on the UK Supreme Court’s official badge OMEGA
A Japanese dish of soya beans in their pods EDAMAME
Maurice ____ was a French painter of cityscapes, especially of Montmartre, where he was born UTRILLO
Middle English name for a type of salamander EFT
RUN FASTER THAN A RIVAL IN THE HOME STRAIGHT OUTSPRINT
This genus in the mint family includes selfheal PRUNELLA
____ FISH LIVE IN THE UPPER WATERS OF THE OPEN SEA PELAGIC
Graham James has been bishop of ____ since 1999 NORWICH
Georges Gilles de la ____ described the symptoms of a “maladie des tics” in 1885 TOURETTE
Vyacheslav ____ was the USSR’s foreign minister during the Second World War MOLOTOV
As a colour on web pages, another name for cyan AQUA
Benjamin Britten's operetta Paul ____ is about a giant lumberjack in American folklore BUNYAN
Curing an addiction to alcohol DRYING OUT
Dorando ____ finished first in the 1908 Olympic marathon, but was later disqualified pietri
Home of the Port of London’s main container facility TILBURY
In The ____, Donald Norman writes: “If I were placed in the cockpit of [an] airliner, my inability to perform well would neither surprise nor bother me. But why should I have trouble with doors, light switches, water faucets and stoves?” DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS
“... and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves ____” (Genesis 3:7) APRONS
Antiphon sometimes sung during a eucharist service INTROIT
A Riley ____ was a more conventional-looking Mini ELF
A 1950s and 1960s series of spotters’ guides for children i-spy
11 elements are ____ at room temperature GASES
1983 Ryan Paris song, inspired by a 1960 Italian film DOLCE VITA
19th-century convoy of US pioneers WAGON TRAIN
A figure skating jump not named after anyone TOE LOOP
A ceremonial entrance to the City of London until 1878 TEMPLE BAR
A colony of white ants termitary
A scapegoat FALL GUY
Ancient Greek city on the island of Santorini, abandoned after a volcanic eruption THERA
Another name for a duvet continental quilt
“... we never really die; we continue as part of ____” (George Lucas) THE FORCE
The snowman in a Christmas song first recorded by Gene Autry in 1950 FROSTY
The plant sweetbrier; also the Canterbury Tales prioress EGLANTINE
The fibre used to make hessian cloth JUTE
A GOLF CLUB USED FOR SOME APPROACH SHOTS MIDIRON
The “Sprint” version of this event includes a 5km run TRIATHLON
The first airline to use “Speedbird” as a call sign BOAC
Tundra, steppe and savannah PLAINS
Thomas Hardy novel or a quote from Gray’s Elegy FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
In chemistry, a base that dissolves in water ALKALI
THE ____ MOUNTAINS ARE THE HIGHEST RANGE IN THE CARPATHIANS TATRA
To make a howl-like sound with a trilling quality ULULATE
From Afrikaans, a name for a tree snake BOOMSLANG
Gilbert and Sullivan’s song A More Humane Mikado has many references to “innocent ____” MERRIMENT
German theologian who resisted Nazism dietrich Bonhoeffer
1963 comedy film about a race for stolen cash it's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Donations by ____ were the basis of an Oxford museum AUGUSTUS PITT RIVERS
Drummer in the Jazz Messengers, formed in the 1950s ART BLAKEY
The slow section of a Hungarian csardas LASSU
New Mexico city best known for a UFO “incident” in 1947 ROSWELL
ON A RADIO, THE A IN AM AMPLITUDE
2016 HORROR FILM ABOUT A MAN WITH 23 PERSONALITIES SPLIT
Proverbially, still waters ____ run deep
Description of copy protection or some naval patrols anti-piracy
Pat and ____ is a 1952 romantic comedy starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy MIKE
INDICATION THAT SWIMMING IS DANGEROUS, OR AN OUTDOOR SHOOTING RANGE IS IN USE RED FLAG
ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE COLORADO RIVER, THE MOST VISITED AREA OF GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK SOUTH RIM
LETTERS ON A FLAG ALSO SHOWING THE CROSS OF ST GEORGE WITH A BLUE BORDER, AND A CROWN AND ANCHOR rnli
Permanent bending of fingers, experienced by about 20 per cent of people over 65 in the UK dupuytren's contracture
Place providing care and recreation facilities for those not fully independent DAY CENTRE
Physicist best known for his uncertainty principle werner Heisenberg