The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 03 10

crossword answers
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Short name for a polynucleotide with a relatively small number of nucleotides OLIGO
Sea-shell whose plural can be spelt with an unexpectedly missing 'e' CONCH
FORMER MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HOMEBASE AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF WH SMITH KATE SWANN
Musical instrument seen on TV in cough sweet advertising ALPHORN
'Enjoyment of the landscape is a ____' (David Hockney) THRILL
Dense brushwood of the southwestern US CHAPARRAL
SANCTIONED OKAYED
Gains an advantage over (another person) one-ups
Informally, a French infantryman of the First World War POILU
Marine fish of the Labridae family WRASSE
TWISTING TORSION
ACTIVITY WHICH MAY MAKE USE OF HEDDLES AND TREADLES WEAVING
On its website, the ____ claims to be 'America's longest-standing civil rights organization' NRA
Old Testament book of 21 verses, mainly about the downfall of Edom OBADIAH
LONDON THOROUGHFARE, HOME TO MADAME TUSSAUDS MARYLEBONE ROAD
According to a Virgil epic poem, a Trojan ancestor of the Romans AENEAS
Second of TS Eliot's Four Quartets EAST COKER
Liberal Party politician who served four terms as prime minister WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
Sticky substance, or sentimentality GOO
Hardened forewings of certain insects, not used to fly ELYTRA
Lead guitarist of Steppenwolf until 1969 Michael Monarch
Lightly scented perfumes EAUX DE COLOGNE
England’s third smallest city by population RIPON
ITV sci-fi fantasy series starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum Sapphire and Steel
FILM TITLE SHARED BY BUSTER KEATON IN 1925 AND THE MARX BROTHERS IN 1940 GO WEST
STAR OF THE 1990 FILM CYRANO DE BERGERAC GERARD DEPARDIEU
CHARACTER SPURNED BY JOHN WILLOUGHBY IN SENSE AND SENSIBILITY MARIANNE DASHWOOD
THE GOLDEN ____ IS THE FIRST RELIC ACQUIRED BY INDIANA JONES IN RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK IDOL
CLARIFIED PIG FAT LARD
THIRD HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD KANGCHENJUNGA
IN PETER PAN, CAPTAIN HOOK'S BO'SUN SMEE
SEVERE PROTEIN MALNUTRITION OFTEN AFFECTING NEWLY WEANED CHILDREN, MOST COMMON IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA KWASHIORKOR
Lead character in the Millennium novels of Stieg Larsson LISBETH SALANDER
Venice's market district RIALTO
Various early Scottish kings were buried on the island of ____ IONA
Concentrated extract of active constituents ESSENCE
A newspaper, especially one regarded as inferior RAG
Anne Frank died of this disease TYPHUS
Chemical element, atomic number 33 ARSENIC
THE FAMILY OF CARPET BEETLES DERMESTIDAE
COLONEL ____ WAS CREATED BY THE CARTOONIST DAVID LOW BLIMP
____ PLAYED CATHY IN THE 1968 STEVE MCQUEEN FILM BULLITT JACQUELINE BISSET
BLONDIE SONG USED IN THE 1980 FILM AMERICAN GIGOLO CALL ME
EXTREMELY DISTRESSING TRAGIC
A self-replicating software virus WORM
2007 novel by Khaled Hosseini A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
'… a spirit too delicate / To act her ____ and abhorred commands' (The Tempest) EARTHY
2010 ACTION COMEDY FILM STARRING BRUCE WILLIS RED
MONTY PYTHON'S PIRANHA BROTHERS WERE BASED ON THE ____ TWINS KRAY
CAPITAL OF THE FORMER DUCHY OF LORRAINE NANCY
POUCHES FORMERLY WORN ON THE FRONT OF BREECHES CODPIECES
1987 lead single from the U2 album The Joshua Tree WITH OR WITHOUT YOU