The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 03 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Beirut is the capital of this country LEBANON
Greek Muse of tragedy MELPOMENE
Informally, the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance WARSAW PACT
Items of furniture, especially in kitchens UNITS
Cricketer who captained England in the early 1960s TED DEXTER
Church partition surmounted by a crucifix, many of which were destroyed in the Reformation ROOD SCREEN
Changing position to gain advantage manoeuvring
Easternmost point on the Republic of Ireland’s mainland Wicklow Head
GERMAN SAUSAGE WURST
Wading bird of the sandpiper family with long, downcurved bill CURLEW
Winterbourne is the suitor in this 1879 novella by Henry James DAISY MILLER
Wonderful to tell (Latin) MIRABILE DICTU
The 'man-cub' of stories by Rudyard Kipling MOWGLI
The oldest male tennis player to play in two Grand Slam finals in the same year KEN ROSEWALL
CURRENT TOP-RANKED BRITISH MALE TENNIS PLAYER Kyle Edmund
New town in Hertfordshire; birthplace of golfer Nick Faldo WELWYN GARDEN CITY
An ____ order allows search and seizure of evidence without warning ANTON PILLER
One setting of the sitcom Gavin & Stacey BILLERICAY
Part of the body to which the word “ungual” applies NAIL
Pension off SUPERANNUATE
'Richard of York gave battle in vain' for example MNEMONIC
Rappel ABSEIL
'____ is fine — but human nature is finer' (John Keats) SCENERY
Type of snake which gives birth to live young BOA
____ paper may also be used for dictionaries BIBLE
1971 novel by V S Naipaul, winner of that year’s Booker Prize IN A FREE STATE
A large merchant sailing ship WINDJAMMER
Alphabet used for Slavonic languages CYRILLIC
An alternative to 'strength' and 'schnapps' as an eight-letter word with one vowel SCHMALTZ
'Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Thou art not so unkind / As man's ____' (As You Like It) INGRATITUDE
____ played Esmerelda in the 1957 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
Canadian province to the east of Ontario QUEBEC
Feeding on any kind of food available OMNIVOROUS
FICTIONAL DETECTIVE INTRODUCED IN THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES HERCULE POIROT
LOCAL OFFICIAL IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND REEVE
____, CARRICK AND CUMNOCK IS A SCOTTISH PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY CREATED IN 2005 AYR
THE POP DUO OF RICHARD DRUMMIE AND PETER COX GO WEST
SMALL RED FRUIT, RICH IN VITAMIN C ROSEHIP
PROTAGONIST OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT'S DEBUT NOVEL EMMA BOVARY
THE CENTIMETRE-GRAM-SECOND UNIT OF WORK ERG
TO SOAK IN LIQUID TO LOOSEN FIBRES RET
'She cut her hair and her ties to the past' is an example of this figure of speech ZEUGMA
Spanish province between Malaga and Almeria GRANADA
The herb Salvia officinalis SAGE
The last character to speak in Hamlet FORTINBRAS
The original 'It girl' CLARA BOW
The ____, popular title of Skrik by Edvard Munch SCREAM
The slow ____ is a nocturnal primate LORIS
To do something 'pour ____ les bourgeois' is to attempt to create a sensation EPATER
GORDON RAMSAY HAS RECENTLY ADDED A VEGAN ____ TO THE MENU AT HIS BREAD STREET KITCHEN ROAST