The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 06 30

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