The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 07 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Greek kebab shop owner portrayed by Harry Enfield stavros
____ the way, facilitated progress PAVED
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her, / Silence more ____ than any song (Christina Rossetti) MUSICAL
A sure thing, such as a certain winner in a race shoo-in
Loss of bodily sensation caused by nerve damage ANAESTHESIA
Queen of England for about six months in 1540 ANNE OF CLEVES
Karma ____, global hit for Culture Club CHAMELEON
City where two Shakespeare plays are set VERONA
Sphere set with jewels ORB
TOLKIEN AND C S LEWIS WERE MEMBERS OF THIS INFORMAL LITERARY DISCUSSION GROUP IN OXFORD DURING THE 1930S AND 1940S INKLINGS
Long-running British TV game show based on the French programme Des chiffres et des lettres COUNTDOWN
Thin stiff transparent fabric, usually of silk, rayon or nylon ORGANZA
Pop singer who often performed with his four older brothers, and had a solo hit with Puppy Love in 1972 DONNY OSMOND
Highly stylised Japanese drama with music and dance NOH
Village on Skye’s Trotternish peninsula, near the Quiraing STAFFIN
The solo album Graceland and the single Bright Eyes are associated respectively with the members of this duo SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
Home of Stanlow oil refinery and Vauxhall Motors works ELLESMERE PORT
The lettuce called romaine in North America COS
COLD PHASE OF A CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN CLIMATE PATTERN La Nina
Creator of the literary detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez ANN CLEEVES
Actor who played Sergeant Caleb Cluff in the BBC TV series Cluff, 1964-65 Leslie Sands
Robert Dudley, Earl of ____, was a favourite of Elizabeth I LEICESTER
People, usually young, working to gain experience INTERNS
One of the world’s two doubly-landlocked countries LIECHTENSTEIN
The Really Useful Group promotes the work of this composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
The ceremonial staff seen with the 13A at coronations SCEPTRE
Plant genus containing the edible currants and gooseberry RIBES
It follows pi and precedes sigma RHO
GEORGES ____, ONE OF LES SIX, LATER WROTE THE MUSIC FOR THE LAVENDER HILL MOB AND THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT AURIC
Commemoration of the truce signed between the Allies and Germany in 1918 ARMISTICE DAY
Seafood seller depicted by a statue in Dublin MOLLY MALONE
Leave much to be ____, fall short of requirements DESIRED
Bus and lorry manufacturer which made the Antar, the British Army’s main tank transporter for about 30 years until 1986 thornycroft
King of the Franks from 768, and the Lombards from 774 CHARLEMAGNE
Its three longest tributaries are the Allier, Cher and Vienne LOIRE
Co-presenter of BBC Breakfast with Dan Walker Louise Minchin
LARGE LUXURIOUS CAR, OFTEN CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN LIMOUSINE
Satirical, ridiculing piece of writing LAMPOON
Laid aside temporarily, but ready for future use Moth-balled
The first ____ took place in 1956 with 20 large vessels sailing from Torquay to Lisbon TALL SHIPS RACE
Asian river, the world’s longest flowing through only one country YANGTZE
IT FLOWS THROUGH ZARAGOZA TOWARDS THE MEDITERRANEAN River Ebro
A composer’s daughter and a composer herself, who worked as Benjamin Britten’s assistant Imogen Holst
Charles ____, conductor, especially of opera, who championed the music of Janacek MACKERRAS
Music-hall song associated with Marie Lloyd Oh Mr Porter
Successor to Douglas Fairbanks as a filmed swashbuckler ERROL FLYNN
The borders of this US state are three straight lines and the Bois de Sioux and Red rivers NORTH DAKOTA
Delamere in Cheshire or Kielder in Northumbria FOREST
Garden boundary which may be affected by a fungal blight nowadays Box hedge
Nickname of 19th-century policemen PEELERS