The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 09 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
3D breeders developed the ____ sheep MERINO
INFORMALLY, A STATE OF BLISS HOG HEAVEN
British pop group whose biggest hit was Hands to Heaven, in 1988 BREATHE
A CHEESE FIRST MADE IN, AND NAMED AFTER, A TOWN IN EAST PRUSSIA TILSIT
GUITAR-LIKE 3D INSTRUMENT OF THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES VIHUELA
An old-fashioned form of charm jewellery AMULET
A COMMON SIZE OF CARAFE half-litre
Renaissance instrument with woodwind-style fingerholes, blown like a brass instrument CORNETT
ORIGINALLY 3D DISH OF SEAFOOD OR MEAT MARINATED AND COOKED IN AN ACIDIC MIXTURE ESCABECHE
A CROWD ____ SOMETHING AS A COLLECTIVE DEMAND bays for
COWBOY HEADGEAR ten-gallon hat
According to the players they were written for, the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Barber were ____ UNPLAYABLE
In the 3D spelling, the man who saw the Pacific from a peak in Darien, according to Keats HERNAN CORTES
“Courts and camps are the only places to ____ the world in” (Lord Chesterfield) LEARN
3D musical style, influenced by Romani culture FLAMENCO
African ethnic group living mainly in Nigeria YORUBA
Singer and comedian Anna ____’s 22-minute synopsis of Wagner’s Ring ends with “You’re exactly where you started, 20 hours ago!” RUSSELL
Softening introduction to a possibly upsetting statement IN ALL HONESTY
Benidorm is a major centre of this tourist area COSTA BLANCA
The 3D name for a famous pedestrian street in Barcelona Las Ramblas
An old name for nitric acid aqua fortis
Scrabble sets for this language have a double L tile SPANISH
Saint ____ of Loyola was a cofounder of the Society of Jesus IGNATIUS
Program which starts a computer’s operating system bootloader
Mountain range including Mulhacen, continental Europe’s highest peak outside the Alps and Caucasus SIERRA NEVADA
Made inaudible by a louder sound drowned out
“____ humanity” is a cliché about a late admired person A LOSS TO
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows ____ about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him ____” (Vaclav Havel) LESS AND LESS
Ferdinand and Isabella established the 3D ____ in 1478 INQUISITION
19th-century illustrator Aubrey ____ worked almost entirely in black and white BEARDSLEY
Derogatory nickname for the 43rd president of the United States DUBYA
1990 tragicomic film about a north London working class family, directed by Mike Leigh LIFE IS SWEET
Tea-time delicacy of southern England LARDY CAKE
To make a mistake, originally in knitting DROP A STITCH
Type of seatbelt developed in the 1960s INERTIA REEL
The fruit of the sweet or 3D ____ is used to make marrons glacés CHESTNUT
Agony aunt Anna ____ worked for LBC and Cosmopolitan RAEBURN
World Radiography Day is held on November 8, the anniversary of Wilhelm ____’s famous discovery ROENTGEN
A MINOR ILLNESS AILMENT
6A and many other 3D explorers came from this region EXTREMADURA
3D province with the same name as its “royal” capital city CIUDAD REAL
In a harmful, or (especially of smells) offensive way NOISOMELY
____’s 2010 US Open win completed a career grand slam RAFAEL NADAL
The ____ is a coming of age TV drama at a summer camp A LIST
If not fresh enough for a taco, a tortilla may become a ____ TOSTADA
English name for the feast of the Annunciation LADY DAY
____ lint is a fabric for treating wounds, and cockney rhyming slang meaning “broke” BORACIC
The kingdom ruled by Croesus LYDIA