The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 05 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A RESIDENT OF BAGHDAD IRAQI
____ directed the films Vera Drake and Mr Turner MIKE LEIGH
43A would have danced with Chris ____ if he had won his 1976 Wimbledon final EVERT
Informally, an attraction at the southern end of the A23 Brighton Pier
The 17th century in French art and literature GRAND SIECLE
A “cabbage” butterfly or a major pig breed LARGE WHITE
The Duke of Medina Sidonia commanded ____ from his flagship, the Sao Martinho THE ARMADA
John Aubrey’s collection of short biographies about contemporaries such as Hobbes and Milton BRIEF LIVES
____’s first role with Hammer Film Productions was in The Curse of Frankenstein CHRISTOPHER LEE
A short-sighted person MYOPE
____ and Pembroke are the only two Oxford University colleges on squares of the same name ORIEL
A tiny amount of something like doubt or evidence SCINTILLA
A logical basis for a course of action RATIONALE
NUMBER OF YARDS IN A CHAIN twenty-two
London’s ____ has a zoo, theatre, lake and bandstand REGENTS PARK
European chief negotiator for Britain’s exit from the EU MICHEL BARNIER
The water boa ANACONDA
EDIBLE, YELLOW, FUNNEL-SHAPED MUSHROOMS CHANTERELLES
THE FOURTH 007 FILM STARRING SEAN CONNERY THUNDERBALL
“What is hope? Nothing but paint on the face of ____” (Byron) EXISTENCE
1999 Richard Curtis film starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant NOTTING HILL
Inflatable plastic or rubber mattresses LILOS
The Holy Grail is said to have been hidden in the Chalice Well at the foot of this Somerset hill Glastonbury Tor
Large sandpiper with a slightly upturned bill GREENSHANK
The last steam engine built by British Railways EVENING STAR
Part of a sail that may be rolled up to reduce its area REEF
French city famed for enamelware, and later, porcelain LIMOGES
Soap in which early characters were Helen Daniels, Des Clarke and Nell Mangel NEIGHBOURS
Strict secretiveness within a community Wall of silence
Translation of the second word of Caesar’s attributed comment “Veni, vidi, vici” I SAW
Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots SNAKEWEED
A 64ft “Contra Trombone” in Sydney Town Hall is one of the world’s longest ____s ORGAN PIPE
Large duck of the merganser genus GOOSANDER
____ Wheel, the sister organisation of Rotary International INNER
One who believes that natural objects have desires and intentions ANIMIST
Citadel built after the 1745 Jacobite rising, guarding the sea approaches to Inverness FORT GEORGE
Basil ___, the Cape Coloured cricketer who played for Worcestershire, and England from 1966 to 1972 DOliviera
Polish composer whose Venetian Games is his most experimental piece, using “aleatory counterpoint” LUTOSLAWSKI
The ____ Sea is bounded by mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica TYRRHENIAN
VARIETY OF PEACH WITH A SMOOTH SKIN NECTARINE
Winner of the 1972 US Open and 1973 French Open ILIE NASTASE
The successor to Enda Kenny as taoiseach, in June 2017 Leo Varadkar
Basil ____ won the 1950 design competition for the new Coventry Cathedral SPENCE
One concerned with the classification of diseases NOSOLOGIST
Using very modern technology Space-age
Musical instrument, often used to convey a pastoral mood COR ANGLAIS
Art retailer, noted for iconic posters of the 1970s and 1980s ATHENA
Plant of the Veronica genus, with small blue or pinkish white flowers SPEEDWELL