The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 05 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
SIBERIAN CITY WHERE DOSTOYEVSKY WAS IMPRISONED OMSK
Philosopher, one of very few Germans commemorated in Kaliningrad, formerly Konigsberg KANT
Euphemistic description of bad sporting performance off-day
Baked dessert containing caramelised fruit TARTE TATIN
“____, could, would — they are contemptible auxiliaries” (George Eliot) MIGHT
In Greek myth, the personification of the evening star HESPERUS
In eastern India, the Ganges splits into the ____ and Hooghly PADMA
Asian pear variety which is not “pear-shaped” NASHI
Hornless cattle breed, originally from northeast Scotland ABERDEEN ANGUS
Tony ____ won one grand slam title in singles and thirteen in doubles, twelve with John Newcombe ROCHE
Disease also known as hog cholera SWINE FEVER
Indonesian ____ was added to Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009 BATIK
IN ICE SKATING, A TOE JUMP TAKING OFF FROM A BACK INSIDE EDGE AND LANDING ON THE BACK OUTSIDE EDGE OF THE OPPOSITE FOOT FLIP
Terence Rattigan play of 1976, surprisingly for one actor DUOLOGUE
The river ____ flows through Carlisle to the Solway Firth EDEN
The only winner of three Olympic 100m freestyle golds DAWN FRASER
An Englishman after whom a US state capital is named SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Frame marking one square metre areas in plant research QUADRAT
The ____ of Greece were 6th-century BC philosophers and politicians renowned for wisdom SEVEN SAGES
Joint for which the Latin is cubitum ELBOW
English city name translating another Down answer NEWCASTLE
LONG GUN OF THE 15TH CENTURY ARQUEBUS
“That’s me darling. ____ places, ____ love affairs” (Sally Bowles, in the 1972 Cabaret film) UNUSUAL
Bicycle ____ Man was a parody superhero in a Monty Python sketch REPAIR
BRITISH COMMANDER AT THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, WHO LATER APPEARED ON A FIRST WORLD WAR RECRUITMENT POSTER General Kitchener
Northernmost point on Great Britain’s mainland Dunnet Head
Yeast is used to ____ dough AERATE
The largest square in Paris Place de la Concorde
The ____ coast is a tourist destination on the gulf of Salerno AMALFI
Fantastical creature functioning as a long waterspout GARGOYLE
Version of “pale”, normally describing faces ASHEN
Light brown type of sugar, originally from Guyana DEMERARA
1961 film which ends with a search for a cat Breakfast At Tiffany's
A participant in certain online auctions EBAYER
In Scotland, a reel, jig or strathspey COUNTRY DANCE
Birmingham’s ____ building appears in a Windows 7 desktop background SELFRIDGES
1990 TEEN MUSICAL ROMANTIC COMEDY FILM STARRING JOHNNY DEPP AS THE EPONYMOUS CHARACTER Cry-Baby
People fleeing to escape prosecution or punishment ABSCONDERS
LIST OF PASSENGERS AND CARGO ON A PLANE OR SHIP MANIFEST
IN ASTRONOMY, A POINT ON THE CELESTIAL SPHERE AT WHICH THE ECLIPTIC INTERSECTS THE CELESTIAL EQUATOR EQUINOX
Historic Methodist church in London’s City Road Wesley's Chapel
Gitega has recently replaced Bujumbura as the capital of ____ BURUNDI
An electron or positron emitted in radioactive decay BETA PARTICLE
Town, lake and canton in French-speaking Switzerland NEUCHATEL
The Bayer pharmaceutical company is based in this city in North Rhine-Westphalia LEVERKUSEN
Wine, windows and coal were all once ____ in Britain TAXED
According to an Office for Budget Responsibility forecast, Britain’s state ____ could reach 70 by the mid-2060s PENSIONABLE AGE
____ engineering adds or removes DNA GENETIC
____ set a new record for a single-handed circumnavigation of the world in 2005 Ellen MacArthur
In 1979, Pietro ____ set a 200m world record in Mexico City, which is still the European record MENNEA