The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 06 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
TRADE NAME FOR THE SEDATIVE DRUG ALSO CALLED QUINALBARBITONE SECONAL
IN 2009, ____ MCLEOD WAS THE FIRST BLACK PLAYER TO QUALIFY FOR THE WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP RORY
LATIN AMERICAN PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT MADE FROM A GOURD GUIRO
The three days before Ash Wednesday SHROVETIDE
BORN SOLOMON COHEN, A STAR OF THE CARRY ON FILMS SID JAMES
FRENCH-BORN PIRATE WHO HELPED TO DEFEND NEW ORLEANS FROM THE BRITISH IN THE FINAL BATTLE OF THE WAR OF 1812 JEAN LAFITTE
____ HOSTED THE 2002 WINTER OLYMPICS SALT LAKE CITY
STUPOR-PRODUCING DRUG NARCOTIC
POLLEX THUMB
SMALL ARACHNID FEEDING ON BLOOD TICK
The Greek goddess of fertility and agriculture DEMETER
Shabby hotel or unkempt person FLEABAG
Condition affecting social communication and interaction AUTISM
1990S ANTIQUES QUIZ SHOW AIRED ON BBC TWO GOING GOING GONE
A SENIOR EXECUTIVE IN THE FORMER BOARD OF ADMIRALTY SEA LORD
POISONOUS GAS USED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR PHOSGENE
A SMALL PIECE OF SOFTWARE WHICH RUNS WITHIN ANOTHER APPLET
ACTOR WHO PLAYED LUKEWARM IN THE SITCOM PORRIDGE Christopher Biggins
VIOLET-SCENTED SUBSTANCE USED IN PERFUMERY ORRIS ROOT
Latin word used in an abbreviated form when citing a work already cited IBIDEM
The Ottoman empire’s equivalent of a prime minister GRAND VIZIER
A ____ aims to achieve socialism by gradual rather than revolutionary means FABIAN
2004 demolition derby racing game developed by Bugbear Entertainment FLATOUT
“Enthusiasm is the ____ of man; it is the passing of the human to the divine” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) HEIGHT
Sugar-refining equipment which raises liquid by air or steam pressure monte-jus
Phoebe’s identical twin in Friends URSULA
Clemenceau’s response to Woodrow Wilson’s “____ points” on post-war peace was “____? The good Lord had only ten” FOURTEEN
Natural covering such as skin or exoskeleton INTEGUMENT
BBC sitcom which starred Robert Lindsay as “Wolfie” CITIZEN SMITH
Singer of Arcade, winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest DUNCAN LAURENCE
A village in the Netherlands or South Africa DORP
Feudal allegiance FEALTY
A plant of the Euphrasia genus, used by herbalists EYEBRIGHT
A narrow marine passage STRAIT
Echo, ____, Hotel GOLF
A name for a pompous individual, apparently originated by Rudyard Kipling little tin god
Ritualistic martial art, literally “way of the sword” KENDO
Original presenter, for 25 years, of University Challenge Bamber Gascoigne
Location of Italy’s busiest airport FIUMICINO
Sesame Street’s saxophone-playing owl HOOTS
____ in Tunisia is one of the cities labelled as Islam’s fourth holiest KAIROUAN
____ national park was Tanzania’s first Unesco world heritage site SERENGETI
Italian actress and daughter of Ingrid Bergman ISABELLA ROSSELLINI
In cell cytoplasm, organelles which store and release energy MITOCHONDRIA
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
To “lay by the ____” is to put (someone) in fetters HEELS
Until July 2016, Puerto Rico’s ____ Observatory housed the world’s largest radio telescope ARECIBO