The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 07 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The opening of a flower bud ANTHESIS
The USS ____ recovered 31D on July 24, 1969 HORNET
Russian project which led to the creation of Nasa SPUTNIK
A ruminant’s third stomach OMASUM
Refusing to obey authority INSUBORDINATE
FIFTH LETTER OF THE GREEK ALPHABET EPSILON
A type of grass; a stick or straw used as a teacher’s pointer FESCUE
A sign of great happiness ear-to-ear grin
____’s last theorem was finally proved by Andrew Wiles FERMAT
COMMON NAME FOR A LOW-GROWING SHRUB, THE ONLY SPECIES IN THE CALLUNA GENUS HEATHER
Buzz Aldrin’s description of the moon’s landscape MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION
Celtic festival marking the beginning of winter SAMHAIN
Capsule communicator who sat next to Jim Lovell at Mission Control during Apollo 11’s descent, and was later in the Apollo 13 crew FRED HAISE
American sitcom starring Ed O’Neill and Katey Sagal MARRIED WITH CHILDREN
Armstrong’s words when the lunar module detached from 31D THE EAGLE HAS WINGS
One of Titania’s fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream MOTH
One ____ of 28A is “distant life in moon cage” ANAGRAM
A DARK SHADE OF BLUE NAVY
AN ELECTRONIC BIRTHDAY OR CHRISTMAS MESSAGE e-card
Member of an organisation, especially one party to secret information about it INSIDER
CRUFTS VENUE SINCE 1991 NEC
THE FIRST PLAYWRIGHT TO DRAMATISE SWEENEY TODD George Dibdin Pitt
A FAN OF THE SCI-FI SERIES CREATED BY GENE RODDENBERRY TREKKIE
Golf clubs used for high trajectory shots LOFTERS
____ the Great, a play by Christopher Marlowe TAMBURLAINE
GERMAN CAR MANUFACTURER OWNED BY GENERAL MOTORS UNTIL 2017 OPEL
JOHN F KENNEDY ANNOUNCED THE MISSION TO LAND MEN ON THE MOON WHILE ADDRESSING THE US CONGRESS ABOUT ____ URGENT NATIONAL NEEDS
Word replacing the last at 30A, spoken by Armstrong on touchdown LANDED
Wagner’s second father-in-law LISZT
US coffee brand named after a former hotel in Nashville MAXWELL HOUSE
Having knot-like swellings NODOSE
Hannibal ____ is, chronologically, the first in the series which includes The Silence of the Lambs RISING
Welsh name for the sea inlet between Bardsey Island and Strumble Head Bae Ceredigion
First name of the first man to set foot on the moon NEIL
ISLAND WHOSE CAPITAL IS THE SMALLEST IN THE EUROPEAN UNION MALTA
COMMUNITY OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE FOUNDED IN 2006 TWITTERSPHERE
Austrian composer who was an exponent of the 12-tone technique Anton Webern
Condiment used to cool the palate in Indian cuisine RAITA
Chris ____’s first UK Top Ten hit was The Road to Hell (Part 2) REA
DANIEL HANNAN, ANTHEA MCINTYRE, NOSHEENA MOBARIK, AND GEOFFREY VAN ORDEN ARE CURRENT CONSERVATIVE ____ Euro-MPs
THE APOLLO 11 COMMAND MODULE COLUMBIA
VICE-PRESIDENT WHO WATCHED THE APOLLO 11 LAUNCH ALONGSIDE LYNDON B JOHNSON SPIRO AGNEW
A BAR CHART HISTOGRAM
OWNER OF LAND UNDER AN ORIGINALLY NORSE LEGAL SYSTEM, STILL USED IN ORKNEY AND SHETLAND UDALLER
DEVIATIONS FROM INTENDED COURSES driftages
FOOTBALLER WHO RECENTLY LEFT WEST HAM UNITED AND PREVIOUSLY PLAYED FOR MANCHESTER CITY Samir Nasri
THE PERSONIFICATION OF SLEEP IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY HYPNOS
BAND WHO WERE AT NO 3 IN THE UK SINGLES CHART AT THE TIME OF THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING ROLLING STONES
CORNER ON THE TOP GEAR TEST TRACK NAMED AFTER AN ACTOR GAMBON
Tommy ____, a generic name for a British Army private ATKINS