The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 10 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
In 1997 ____ became the youngest Wimbledon singles champion since Lottie Dodd in 1887 MARTINA HINGIS
Young minds without innate ideas, according to John Locke TABULAE RASAE
Of a tide, having the least difference between high and low water NEAP
SOME HISTORICAL ____ WERE THOSE OF WAITANGI, VERSAILLES AND BREST-LITOVSK TREATIES
Rugby Union club now based at Allianz Park in Hendon SARACENS
INFLAMMATION OF THE PIGMENTED LAYER OF THE EYE UVEITIS
Priest featured in stories by the humorist Giovannino Guareschi Don Camillo
The outer peel of citrus fruit ZEST
Body of water lying between Yemen and Somalia GULF OF ADEN
Avian adversary of the cartoon cat Sylvester Tweetie Pie
Host of Mock the Week DARA O BRIAIN
NOT PURGED OF SIN UNCLEANSED
The first Sherlock Holmes novel A STUDY IN SCARLET
A formal expression of praise ENCOMIUM
Actress who starred in the 1979 Roman Polanski film Tess NASTASSJA KINSKI
ONE TRAINING TO BECOME A CHURCH MINISTER ORDINAND
American pay TV service launched in 1972 HBO
Greek meatballs made with herbs and onions KEFTEDES
Five-act drama by Victorien Sardou, adapted for opera by Puccini LA TOSCA
To place extra pages between those of a book INTERLEAVE
The “Jondrette Girl” of Les Miserables EPONINE
By population, Japan’s second largest city YOKOHAMA
Common nickname for Prokofiev’s Symphony No 1 CLASSICAL
Eponymous pet rat of Danny Garrison in a 1972 film, its theme sung by Michael Jackson BEN
Of speech, delivered quietly SOTTO VOCE
Educated 12th/13th-century entertainers who produced poetry like Carmina Burana, combining bawdiness and clerical satire GOLIARDS
____ Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a 1798 collection by Wordsworth and Coleridge LYRICAL
Younger sister of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire STELLA KOWALSKI
One who studies mites and ticks acarologist
Oil of vitriol SULPHURIC ACID
British swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games SHARRON DAVIES
Privates Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris in short stories by Rudyard Kipling Soldiers Three
Tony ____ was the original drummer for The Shadows meehan
Mirage named after a character of Arthurian legend FATA MORGANA
TRADITIONAL SMALL BOAT PROPELLED BY SAIL AND/OR OARS, STILL IN COMMON USE ON THE NILE FELUCCA
Island whose capital is Antananarivo MADAGASCAR
Sling attached to a masthead, allowing a sailor to balance a small boat by leaning far over the windward side TRAPEZE
David Trimble led the ____ Party, 1995-2005 ULSTER UNIONIST
Italian dish which translates as “it leaps into the mouth” SALTIMBOCCA
Ancient Egyptian city around 12 miles south of Giza MEMPHIS
EASY A CINCH
Of an assembly, adjourned without a resumption date SINE DIE
A spiral lock of hair plastered to the forehead kiss-curl
What an inspector does at the Brumley home of the Birlings, in a famous play CALLS
Chicago airport, formerly Orchard Field, which explains its IATA code ORD O'Hare
Bolton Wanderers footballer (and later manager) who played for England 33 times in the 1950s, scoring 30 goals Nat Lofthouse
PRECISE AND INTRICATE PATTERNS OF INTERLACED LINES, OFTEN USED ON BANK NOTES AND PASSPORTS GUILLOCHE
Payment of money DISBURSAL