The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 10 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Tangled thickets of shrubs in the southwestern USA CHAPARRAL
The ____, Ealing comedy named after a Battersea street LAVENDER HILL MOB
SWISS TOWN IN VALAIS, FAMED AS A SKI RESORT ZERMATT
COCONUT HUSK FIBRE COIR
Sumo wrestler RIKISHI
Genus to which holly belongs ILEX
French cheese similar to Gruyère COMTE
Cheshire town which is popular with train-spotters CREWE
Composer of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) GUSTAV MAHLER
Controversial 1959 William S Burroughs novel NAKED LUNCH
Plant known as Adam’s needle YUCCA
AUSTRALIAN FEMALE TENNIS PLAYER, CURRENTLY THE WORLD NO 1 Ashleigh Barty
Plant of the daisy family’s “flea-bane” genus ERIGERON
As a musical instruction, gradually slowing and becoming quieter CALANDO
An area of flat unforested grassland STEPPE
A rounded convex architectural moulding OVOLO
Abbreviated, a weapon such as the Peacekeeper ICBM
“In all my associations with hunters, travellers and naturalists, I have never yet been able to find one who would defend the ____” (Theodore Roosevelt) HYENA
“Love truth, but pardon ____” (Voltaire) ERROR
“The Russians are liars — you can’t trust them” (Harry S Truman, talking about the 1945 ____ conference) POTSDAM
“The ____” is a local informal name for the Witwatersrand scarp REEF
Musical composition used as practice material, or to display virtuosity ETUDE
American actress; wife of Shakespeare ANNE HATHAWAY
Baseball catcher and manager who said “If you come to a fork in the road, take it” YOGI BERRA
Flat grey sheet of cloud STRATUS
Capital of Cambodia PHNOM PENH
Medieval Latin hymn referenced in many works of classical music DIES IRAE
Irish author whose debut novel was The Country Girls Edna O'Brien
Jewish woman who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus MARY MAGDALENE
Horace: “Dolly Levi, you are a damned ____ woman” Dolly: “Why Horace Vandergelder, that is the nicest thing you have ever said to me” (Hello, Dolly!) EXASPERATING
SINEW TENDON
Mercury, to alchemists AZOTH
A LANTHANIDE, ONE OF FOUR ELEMENTS ALL NAMED AFTER THE SAME MINING VILLAGE IN SWEDEN ERBIUM
MAORI TERM FOR SOMEONE OF EUROPEAN DESCENT PAKEHA
SPOOKS CHARACTER, AN MI5 INTELLIGENCE ANALYST, PLAYED BY NICOLA WALKER Ruth Evershed
A SEEMINGLY BOTTOMLESS CHASM ABYSS
REGION AT THE EASTERN END OF THE MAINLAND IN ANCIENT GREECE ATTICA
COMPUTER WHICH BEAT GARRY KASPAROV IN A GAME OF CHESS IN 1996 DEEP BLUE
BIRTHMARKS OR MOLES NAEVI
A kind of profanity deleted in Watergate tape transcripts EXPLETIVE
Marks in the same places as Christ’s crucifixion wounds STIGMATA
King Lear character with an illegitimate son, Edmund Earl of Gloucester
TITLE OF SINGLES BY ARETHA FRANKLIN, NIK KERSHAW, SPLIT ENZ, AND DEBBIE GIBSON ONE STEP AHEAD
MOZART OPERA ABOUT A KING OF CRETE IDOMENEO
CENTRAL CHARACTER OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE PORTIA
ITALIAN FLATBREAD TOPPED WITH HERBS AND SALT FOCACCIA
THE AUTHOR OF CRANFORD ELIZABETH GASKELL
1954 EPIC FILM CO-WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AKIRA KUROSAWA SEVEN SAMURAI
Lewd bespectacled comic creation of Les Dawson Cosmo Smallpiece
Le Baiser, an Auguste Rodin sculpture of 1882 THE KISS