The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 09 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
1976 comedy movie starring Burt Reynolds as an ex-con living in the Okefenokee Swamp on the borders of Florida and Georgia GATOR
Friends character played by Matt LeBlanc JOEY TRIBBIANI
UNSOPHISTICATED ARTLESS
CREATOR OF LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
THAT WHICH SCORES FOUR OR FIVE POINTS IN RUGBY TRY
Mob rule OCHLOCRACY
German mercenary soldier of the 16th century LANDSKNECHT
Nationality after which red and white pigments are named CHINESE
NORTH AMERICAN TERM FOR A LIVELY PARTY; IN PLURAL FORM, A FONT CONSISTING OF SYMBOLS WINGDING
1980S SOAP OPERA LAUNCHED AS A COMPANION TO CORONATION STREET ALBION MARKET
SURNAME OF NORWEGIAN RALLY DRIVING BROTHERS PETTER AND HENNING SOLBERG
Jan ____ has a very large cloud named after him OORT
Open flan with savoury filling QUICHE
Originally, “to thrash”, now “to scold” LAMBAST
Refusal to attend Church of England services when it was required by law RECUSANCY
Sharpen, especially by rubbing on stone WHET
State capital of Tasmania HOBART
The flightless Australian bird Dromaius novaehollandiae EMU
The religious texts of Zoroastrianism AVESTA
The sort of bodies associated with a Channel 4 reality TV show EMBARRASSING
Word for word (Medieval Latin) VERBATIM
In Greek myth, Aphrodite’s mortal lover ADONIS
Grimsby Town FC are “The ____” MARINERS
Dutch footballer who managed Burton Albion, Queens Park Rangers, and Northampton Town Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Denis ____ presented It’ll be Alright on the Night NORDEN
Crustacean which climbs palm trees to eat coconuts robber crab
Critically endangered amphibian species whose only natural habitat is Mexico City’s Lake Xochimilco AXOLOTL
Captain of the West Indies test side 2007-2010 Chris Gayle
____ John ____ is a clothing brand sold exclusively by Debenhams ROCHA
Author of Tales of the Unexpected ROALD DAHL
Third single from REM’s final studio album Collapse Into Now uberlin
On Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumours, the first song written by Christine McVie Don't Stop
A German “miss” FRAULEIN
Jodrell Bank Observatory’s main telescope is named after ____ BERNARD LOVELL
A pastoral poem BUCOLIC
1961 novel by 31D made into a 1996 film starring Paul Terry James And The Giant Peach
CIRCLE DANCES; SIMPLE SONGS WITH REFRAINS ROUNDELAYS
DESCRIPTION OF THE GOSPELS OTHER THAN JOHN SYNOPTIC
Author of the first Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 ANDRE BRETON
Edvard Munch painting called, in his language, Skrik THE SCREAM
Island on which Joe Rosenthal’s iconic flag-raising photograph was taken IWO JIMA
____ gained attention as Seth Brundle in The Fly JEFF GOLDBLUM
Actress who became a long-time mistress of Charles II NELL GWYN
The United Principalities of ____ and Wallachia became Romania in 1866 MOLDAVIA
The most northwesterly point of mainland Britain Cape Wrath
Archaic word meaning “in addition” or “to boot” WITHAL
1964 western starring Audie Murphy as captain Jeff Stanton APACHE RIFLES