The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 06 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Léo ____ wrote the music for the ballet Coppélia DELIBES
City destroyed by Vesuvius in AD79 POMPEII
Character played by Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix films TRINITY
A ____ CIPHER ENCODES LETTERS IN PAIRS RATHER THAN SINGLY DIGRAPHIC
FOODSTUFF THAT HMS BOUNTY WAS MEANT TO TAKE FROM TAHITI TO THE WEST INDIES, ON THE VOYAGE THAT ENDED IN MUTINY BREADFRUIT
Eastenders character Beppe ____ had relationships with Grant Mitchell’s wife and sister Di Marco
At or near the stern of a vessel AFT
A tiny amount; ninth letter of the Greek alphabet IOTA
“____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another’s pain” (William Cowper) DETESTED
1950s pop genre often using unconventional instruments SKIFFLE
“Walk the dog” is a famous trick with this toy yo-yo
“If those to whom power is ____ do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised” (Thomas Paine) DELEGATED
River which formed the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul RUBICON
The bracketed part in the title of James Brown’s most successful single I FEEL GOOD
The term “____ fiction” was popularised by HP Lovecraft, one of its best-known exponents WEIRD
In logic and mathematics, the meaning of three dots forming an upward-pointing triangle THEREFORE
The only UK No 1 single for Pink Floyd ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
Humorist who used the pen name Beachcomber J B Morton
A SEA MIST OF THE EAST COAST OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND HAAR
MUSICAL COMPOSITION PLAYED IN A SLOW, DIGNIFIED MANNER LARGO
SPRAY BLOWN FROM THE CRESTS OF WAVES SPINDRIFT
Chrysotile is the most common form of this incombustible material ASBESTOS
BBC One crime drama starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby Inspector George Gently
Common name for a plant of the genus Geum AVENS
Boxer who sparred with Rocky Balboa in Rocky II ROBERTO DURAN
Items placed in footwear for warmth or comfort INSOLES
Simon ____ co-founded the avant-pop Penguin Cafe Orchestra JEFFES
Portuguese footballer sometimes known as “O Rei” (The King) EUSEBIO
Resembling a mythical journey into the underworld ORPHEAN
North American animal also called “wapiti” ELK
Mushroom which contains the drug psilocybin LIBERTY CAP
THE ____ IS THE HARBOUR WALL AT LYME REGIS COBB
PATRICK ____ CREATED PLANS FOR REBUILDING POST-WAR LONDON ABERCROMBIE
IN GOLF, WITH A SCORE HIGHER THAN REGULATION OVER PAR
WRITER OF THE BOOK AND LYRICS FOR SPAMALOT ERIC IDLE
MADRID STADIUM WHICH HOSTED THE 2019 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL Wanda Metropolitano
Mexican painter famed for his murals DIEGO RIVERA
Occurring throughout a metropolis CITYWIDE
Greek tragedian whose works include Ajax, Electra, and Oedipus Rex SOPHOCLES
Gothic arch; a cumulative frequency graph in statistics OGIVE
French stew, especially of beef, traditionally made in a terracotta pot DAUBE
Duran Duran single which preceded Ordinary World SERIOUS
NAVELS UMBILICI
Director of the 1972 film The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
Female gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Claudia Fragapane
PHILIP PULLMAN TRILOGY CONSISTING OF NORTHERN LIGHTS, THE SUBTLE KNIFE, AND THE AMBER SPYGLASS HIS DARK MATERIALS
Neutral vowel sound represented by the letter Y in Welsh SCHWA
Word game also called “capping the rhyme” CRAMBO
Son of King Priam ambushed and killed by Achilles TROILUS
TV “dragon”, chairman of Millwall FC, 1995-2007 Theo Paphitis