The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 02 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
INSECTIVOROUS BIRD WITH LONG DOWNWARD-POINTING BILL AND LONG POINTED WINGS AND TAIL Bee-eater
HANNA-BARBERA CARTOON SERIES COMBINING 1960S LIFESTYLES WITH A PREHISTORIC SETTING THE FLINTSTONES
A dish made with sheets of pasta LASAGNE
____ WHALES ARE THOSE WITH THROAT GROOVES, INCLUDING MINKES AND HUMPBACKS RORQUAL
Metal ornamentation, with engraved areas filled with a black compound NIELLO
A painting which gives a convincing illusion of three-dimensional reality Trompe l'oeil
____ OF SPRING IS THE THIRD OF SINDING'S SIX PIECES FOR PIANO RUSTLE
The setting for Twelfth Night ILLYRIA
An alternative name for the Book of Revelation THE APOCALYPSE
Port on the Gulf of Guinea: its country's capital until 1991 LAGOS
A SERIES OF RELATED NOVELS, LIKE THE FORSYTE SAGA Roman fleuve
Employed or found on dry land near a coast LONGSHORE
Frank Hornby’s mostly metal toy patented in 1907 Meccano set
AS GEOFFREY CRAYON, ____ WROTE A SKETCH BOOK WITH STORIES INCLUDING THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW WASHINGTON IRVING
Art Nouveau designer René ____ was noted for frosted glassware LALIQUE
Takes off a cape UNCLOAKS
2018 HISTORICAL DRAMA FILM STARRING SAOIRSE RONAN AS THE EPONYMOUS ROYAL MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Composed of stone LITHIC
As quick as lightning! IN A FLASH
Maurice ____, French vaudeville actor whose dancing partner was Mistinguett CHEVALIER
Large cooking apples COSTARDS
British-born, but naturalised US poet who wrote Funeral Blues AUDEN
The Green Party's first MP who has held the Brighton Pavilion seat since 2010 Caroline Lucas
Codename for the Allied operation to invade Normandy which began on D-Day in 1944 OVERLORD
Bread dipped in egg and milk, and then fried FRENCH TOAST
Civic leader of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, or Dundee LORD PROVOST
Not 'England's green and pleasant land'! EMERALD ISLE
Likeness of embryonic tissue isogeny
NATIONALITY OF THE INHABITANTS OF STREYMOY AND EYSTUROY FAROESE
DUTCH OR HUGUENOT COLONISTS WHO SETTLED IN SOUTH AFRICA BOERS
In Dad's Army, William Hodges is a greengrocer and ____ AIR RAID WARDEN
SMALL SANDPIPER WITH A BROWN BACK AND BLACK BREAST IN SUMMER DUNLIN
A DRAWING PENCIL MADE OF AN AMORPHOUS FORM OF CARBON CHARCOAL
RADIO PRODUCER DOUGLAS ____'S WORK INCLUDED THE PREMIERE OF UNDER MILK WOOD IN 1954 cleverdon
Tallis’s 'Spem in Alium' is a ____ with 40 singing parts MOTET
MUSHROOM-SHAPED ARRANGEMENT OF PIECES OF ROCK SUPPORTING A HAYSTACK OR OTHER FOOD STORE STADDLESTONE
ENGLISH SILVER COIN WORTH FOUR PENCE, ONLY RARELY ISSUED AFTER THE 16TH CENTURY GROAT
THE ____ PROTECTORATE BECAME BOTSWANA IN 1966 BECHUANALAND
The USA’s 'Magnolia State' MISSISSIPPI
HOME TOWN OF STRICTLY COME DANCING'S KEVIN CLIFTON GRIMSBY
THE FIVE ____ IS ONE OF THE LORD PETER WIMSEY MYSTERIES BY DOROTHY L SAYERS RED HERRINGS
SEGMENT OF THE SPINE VERTEBRA
Lacking generality AD HOC
Characters such as Molière's Alceste MISANTHROPES
EURASIAN SWALLOW WITH WHITE AND BLUISH-BLACK PLUMAGE HOUSE MARTIN
A ____'s Ring is received by each pope at his inauguration FISHERMAN
Gertie Gitana's famous musical hall song, with a chorus starting “There's an old mill by the stream” NELLIE DEAN
THE ____, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S NOVEL ABOUT THE ADULTERESS HESTER PRYNNE SCARLET LETTER
UNDECIPHERED WRITING SYSTEM, USED IN ANCIENT CRETE LINEAR A
COUNTY TOWN ON THE RIVER NENE NORTHAMPTON
Nickname of the Second World War RAF commander-in-chief who oversaw attacks on Berlin and Nuremberg in 1944 Bomber Harris
Part of the northern Mediterranean, between Corsica and the Italian Riviera LIGURIAN SEA
Group of Dutch artists and architects of the 1920s which included Mondrian and Van Doesburg DE STIJL
FOURTH ESTATE THE PRESS
The ultimate recipient of a product being sold END USER
MP for Aberavon, married to former Danish PM, Helle Thorning-Schmidt Stephen Kinnock