The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 06 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BORN SOLOMON COHEN, A STAR OF THE CARRY ON FILMS SID JAMES
TRADE NAME FOR THE SEDATIVE DRUG ALSO CALLED QUINALBARBITONE SECONAL
2004 demolition derby racing game developed by Bugbear Entertainment FLATOUT
The Ottoman empire’s equivalent of a prime minister GRAND VIZIER
Feudal allegiance FEALTY
POISONOUS GAS USED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR PHOSGENE
____ national park was Tanzania’s first Unesco world heritage site SERENGETI
A SMALL PIECE OF SOFTWARE WHICH RUNS WITHIN ANOTHER APPLET
VIOLET-SCENTED SUBSTANCE USED IN PERFUMERY ORRIS ROOT
Italian actress and daughter of Ingrid Bergman ISABELLA ROSSELLINI
The Greek goddess of fertility and agriculture DEMETER
____ HOSTED THE 2002 WINTER OLYMPICS SALT LAKE CITY
Until July 2016, Puerto Rico’s ____ Observatory housed the world’s largest radio telescope ARECIBO
IN 2009, ____ MCLEOD WAS THE FIRST BLACK PLAYER TO QUALIFY FOR THE WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP RORY
A SENIOR EXECUTIVE IN THE FORMER BOARD OF ADMIRALTY SEA LORD
Latin word used in an abbreviated form when citing a work already cited IBIDEM
Sesame Street’s saxophone-playing owl HOOTS
“Enthusiasm is the ____ of man; it is the passing of the human to the divine” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) HEIGHT
Location of Italy’s busiest airport FIUMICINO
Sugar-refining equipment which raises liquid by air or steam pressure monte-jus
ACTOR WHO PLAYED LUKEWARM IN THE SITCOM PORRIDGE Christopher Biggins
LATIN AMERICAN PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT MADE FROM A GOURD GUIRO
A plant of the Euphrasia genus, used by herbalists EYEBRIGHT
The three days before Ash Wednesday SHROVETIDE
____ in Tunisia is one of the cities labelled as Islam’s fourth holiest KAIROUAN
Singer of Arcade, winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest DUNCAN LAURENCE
Fermented rye drink, sold from tanks in Russian city streets KVASS
EM Forster novel containing the line “Adventures do occur, but not punctually” A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Clemenceau’s response to Woodrow Wilson’s “____ points” on post-war peace was “____? The good Lord had only ten” FOURTEEN
Ritualistic martial art, literally “way of the sword” KENDO
Phoebe’s identical twin in Friends URSULA
Shabby hotel or unkempt person FLEABAG
POLLEX THUMB
SMALL ARACHNID FEEDING ON BLOOD TICK
A narrow marine passage STRAIT
BBC sitcom which starred Robert Lindsay as “Wolfie” CITIZEN SMITH
Original presenter, for 25 years, of University Challenge Bamber Gascoigne
A name for a pompous individual, apparently originated by Rudyard Kipling little tin god
In cell cytoplasm, organelles which store and release energy MITOCHONDRIA
1990S ANTIQUES QUIZ SHOW AIRED ON BBC TWO GOING GOING GONE
Condition affecting social communication and interaction AUTISM
Echo, ____, Hotel GOLF
To “lay by the ____” is to put (someone) in fetters HEELS
FRENCH-BORN PIRATE WHO HELPED TO DEFEND NEW ORLEANS FROM THE BRITISH IN THE FINAL BATTLE OF THE WAR OF 1812 JEAN LAFITTE
A ____ aims to achieve socialism by gradual rather than revolutionary means FABIAN
A village in the Netherlands or South Africa DORP
Natural covering such as skin or exoskeleton INTEGUMENT
STUPOR-PRODUCING DRUG NARCOTIC