The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 08 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
TO COMMEMORATE ITS LAST BATTLE AS A MILITARY UNIT AT GLENSHIEL IN 1719, CLAN MUNRO HELD AN INTERNATIONAL ____ LAST WEEKEND GATHERING
____ and Kashmir is India’s northernmost state JAMMU
SPORTING CONTESTANT WHOSE DISCIPLINE MAY BE ALPINE OR NORDIC SKIER
“Senior” rather than “old”, or “in an interesting condition” meaning “pregnant” EUPHEMISM
The Great ____ in Kew Gardens dominates the local skyline PAGODA
When New Romney’s harbour silted up, it was replaced as a Cinque port by ____ RYE
Medicinal herb traditionally used to treat insomnia VALERIAN
Italian composer Ruggero ____ wrote the opera Pagliacci LEONCAVALLO
An American name for a conscript DRAFTEE
Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar Will Travel was Duane ____’s debut album EDDY
THE LAST JUDGMENT, OR A MEDIEVAL CHURCH PAINTING OF IT DOOM
CHOOSE TO PARTICIPATE OPT IN
Trademark for dimenhydrinate, an important drug for some travellers DRAMAMINE
Main muscle used by mammals when chewing MASSETER
Illustrator of many books, especially for children, including Stig of the Dump EDWARD ARDIZZONE
A speck of soot SMUT
A steep-sided hill smaller than the similar mesa BUTTE
Alan Paton’s novel about South Africa, written just before the introduction of apartheid Cry The Beloved Country
Christmas pudding is a form of ____ PLUM DUFF
Informal name for Maniola jurtina, a common British butterfly MEADOW BROWN
More modern than others AHEAD OF THE CURVE
The architect who designed the Louvre Pyramid I M PEI
One ____ of carbon is buckminsterfullerene ALLOTROPE
Expression of assent in radio communications WILCO
A symbol of communism; a former parcels service introduced by British Rail in 1963 RED STAR
Informally, a Latin American dance in ballroom contests cha-cha
Another word for appendix, in its literary meaning ADDENDUM
Madrid’s Museo del ____ was originally intended to house natural history exhibits PRADO
The opening number of the 1975 musical Chicago ALL THAT JAZZ
SMALL HANDMADE WOODEN HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS TREEN
Former IOC president who started the curious tradition of calling practically every Olympics the “best ever” Juan Antonio Samaranch
CARDINAL WHO SUCCEEDED RICHELIEU AS CHIEF MINISTER TO LOUIS XIII Jules Mazarin
SYMBOL SEEN ON THE NATIONAL FLAGS OF MOROCCO AND ETHIOPIA PENTAGRAM
Measure of inflation in the UK, first calculated in 1947 RPI
Author whose short stories in The Bloody Chamber were based on fairy tales ANGELA CARTER
Nautical phenomenon often found where glacial run-off flows into a fjord, slowing down ships using propellers DEAD WATER
Roman military commander who rose to political prominence after defeating the revolt led by Spartacus MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS
Wood commonly used to make fingerboards for violins EBONY
Latin phrase meaning “which was to be shown”, traditionally abbreviated at the end of a mathematical proof QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM
The best thing to do with difficult questions? NOT ANSWER
Worcestershire town with Britain’s only needle museum REDDITCH
In the name of a tourist destination, “blue” AZUR
A European head of government who, like Margaret Thatcher, studied and worked in chemistry ANGELA MERKEL
The most popular boules game played in France PETANQUE
INFORMALLY, A MEDICAL PROCEDURE WHICH MAY BE CARRIED OUT DURING A PREGNANCY AMNIO
Grape variety traditionally used in wines from Burgundy PINOT NOIR
One of the solar system’s gas giants Jovian planet