The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 08 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
An idiom such as “al dente” or “bel canto” ITALICISM
Kings of Leon’s follow-up single to Sex on Fire USE SOMEBODY
Vega is in this constellation LYRA
Author of The Bell Jar SYLVIA PLATH
Spanish explorer, the first European documented as crossing the Mississippi Hernando de Soto
James ____ was the BBC’s main reporter on Apollo missions BURKE
ONE OF THE GODS INVOKED BY SARASTRO IN THE ARIA STARTING ACT 2 OF THE MAGIC FLUTE OSIRIS
A big problem or important question MAJOR ISSUE
Graffiti “addendum” indicating dominance RULES OK
Song after which Janet Webb often thanked TV viewers for “watching me and my little show here tonight” BRING ME SUNSHINE
Joan ____, Spanish surrealist painter MIRO
Small car, traditionally using an overhead power supply DODGEM
FRUIT OF THE BLACKTHORN SLOE
Another name for many types of otary EARED SEALS
____ bowls has a playing area with a raised centre CROWN GREEN
Terrestrial crustacean of the Oniscidae family WOODLOUSE
1993 film billed as “the first hip-hop whodunnit” Who's The Man
New York City is popularly called the ____ BIG APPLE
A SESSION OF WORK STINT
To give (someone) the runaround FOB OFF
The ____, 2010 Howard Jacobson novel and winner of the Man Booker prize Finkler Question
From 1878, all papal conclaves have been in the ____ Chapel SISTINE
Name originally used for a European wolf spider TARANTULA
Name for some verse, sometimes compared to music PURE POETRY
Peter ____ was the most recent male winner of the Olympic 800m and 1500m double, in 1964 SNELL
Exclamation of surprise, often thought of as Australian STREWTH
“With butter” in Italian cuisine, eg in the dish that became Fettucine Alfredo AL BURRO
Serious condition created by the body’s response to harmful microorganisms SEPSIS
____ became Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002 Rowan Williams
Born in Bath, a comedian who once played football for Basingstoke Town RUSSELL HOWARD
A South American flightless bird and a satellite of Saturn RHEA
In limited-overs cricket, a period with fielding restrictions POWERPLAY
Mexican agave plant, or more commonly, its fibre SISAL
Amorous outdoor scenes, eg those painted by Watteau fetes galantes
The author who created Roderick Random SMOLLETT
Lyric poem with couplets of a long line followed by a shorter one EPODE
Toni Morrison novel featuring Macon “Milkman” Dead III SONG OF SOLOMON
Gymnast Mary Lou ____ won women’s all-around gold at the 1984 Olympics RETTON
Tournament in which each player competes against every other in turn ROUND ROBIN
Cock ____, founded in London’s East End in 1972, was an influential punk rock band SPARRER
Primal Scream’s most successful single, Country Girl, came from this album Riot City Blues
“Thou still ____ bride of quietness” (Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn) UNRAVISHED
Manager of Middlesbrough when they won the League Cup in 2004 Steve McClaren
Political theory developed by Lev Davidovich Bronstein TROTSKYISM
Dutch polymath Christiaan ____ invented the pendulum clock and discovered Titan, Saturn’s largest moon HUYGENS
The central principle in a speech or literary work KEYNOTE
THE CAP OF A MUSHROOM PILEUS
Actor who played Ender Wiggin in the 2013 film Ender’s Game Asa Butterfield
Second letter of the Nato alphabet BRAVO
TETANUS, ATTUNES, UNSTATE, ____ TAUTENS