The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 07 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Magnetic field measurement unit in the CGS system OERSTED
SUPPOSEDLY A SPIRIT, OFTEN IN ANIMAL FORM, ASSISTING A WITCH FAMILIAR
Comedy film starring Paul Newman as a rogue whose long-neglected son returns for Thanksgiving Nobody's Fool
Doris Day’s first film role was in Romance ____, about a cruise to Rio ON THE HIGH SEAS
2002 animated film featuring a sloth called Sid and a mammoth called Manny ICE AGE
Egyptian hydrological project ASWAN DAM
Event first held in 1903 to boost the sales of a sporting newspaper TOUR DE FRANCE
Eventual winner Octave Lapize’s description of the 30A’s organisers as murderers, shouted at them as he led its first ascent of the Col d’Aubisque in 1910 ASSASSINS
China’s currency since 1948 RENMINBI
French transport vehicle, or a group riding together to beat the elimination time for a 30A mountain stage AUTOBUS
Hindi term for a long stick used as a weapon LATHI
Ironic alternative to “Purity of Essence” as the explanation for the POE recall code identified by Captain Mandrake in Doctor Strangelove PEACE ON EARTH
HOWARD ____ COMPOSED MUSIC FOR TV PROGRAMMES INCLUDING RED DWARF AND THE VICAR OF DIBLEY GOODALL
Another name for the meat product kielbasa POLISH SAUSAGE
A “penny bun” or similar mushroom BOLETE
“Against the watch” — a French name for a time trial CONTRE LA MONTRE
____ Fame’s first No 1 hit was Yeh, Yeh in 1964 GEORGIE
A primate formerly called “pygmy chimpanzee” BONOBO
Another name for a lapwing PEEWIT
An ironical description of decision-making in one's wisdom
An English version of the “pois rouges” on the jersey of the 30A’s leading climber POLKA DOTS
Anthropomorphic bovine seen on a TV game show, 1981-95 BULLY
Capital city of China’s Hubei province WUHAN
“He is very foolish who aims at ____ all the world and his father” (Jean de la Fontaine) SATISFYING
Cattle herded together for a journey DROVE
____ won the 1989 30A, beating 6D by 16A after a final 5D GREG LEMOND
____ won the 30A for the fifth time in 1985 bernard Hinault
SMELLY ODORIFEROUS
Musical instrument once sold as the Clarke London Flageolet TIN WHISTLE
Attire for the most special occasions formal clothes
FAIRGROUND THROWING GAME HOOPLA
Neutral, in relation to government APOLITICAL
John ____ illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice books TENNIEL
French painter Antoine ____ transformed the baroque style to the more naturalistic rococo WATTEAU
SAINT ____ IS TRADITIONALLY REGARDED AS THE FOUNDER OF GLASGOW MUNGO
INFORMALLY, A PARTY CURRENTLY ELECTING A NEW LEADER LIB DEMS
FRENCH WINNER OF THE 30A IN 1983 AND 1984 laurent Fignon
You cannot use this plant to make textiles BOG COTTON
Jeremy ____ was Channel 4’s first chief executive, and later the Royal Opera House’s general director ISAACS
MATTER THROWN OUT, ESPECIALLY BY VOLCANOES EJECTA
THE USE OF ____S BY THE POLICE IS CONTROLLED BY THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT PASSED IN 2000 NOTEBOOK
In 1949, Fausto ___ was the first person to win the 30A and Giro d’Italia in the same year COPPI
Wavered between possible choices OSCILLATED
A CELL WITH AN AXON AND DENDRITES NEURONE
See 7A eight seconds
Thalictrum flavum is the “common” version of this ranunculaceous plant with clusters of small flowers MEADOW RUE
To ____ something is to do it enthusiastically go to town on
The roller of a typewriter PLATEN