The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 11 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
THE GREAT ____, A CHALK DOWNLAND BIRD IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND, BECAME EXTINCT IN 1832, AND WAS REINTRODUCED ON SALISBURY PLAIN IN 2003 BUSTARD
UPRIGHT PART OF A STEP RISER
PERTAINING TO THE KIDNEYS RENAL
PLANT GENUS WHICH FORMERLY INCLUDED COMMON HEATHER ERICA
____ and Bertrand Russell wrote Principia Mathematica ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Devon town which gives its name to a type of lace HONITON
THE HOME TOWN OF MARY AND JOSEPH NAZARETH
THE INVASIVE HYBRID PLANT CROCOSMIA X CROCOSMIIFLORA, ILLEGAL TO PLANT OR GROW IN THE WILD IN BRITAIN SINCE 2010 MONTBRETIA
X-SHAPED CROSSING OF OPTIC NERVES CHIASMA
POET KNOWN AS THE GEORGIAN LAUREATE, FATHER OF A 20TH-CENTURY TOWN PLANNER LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE
Artist who said “I don’t paint things. I only paint the differences between things” HENRI MATISSE
WARTIME AIRBASE WHERE MANCHESTER AIRPORT NOW STANDS RAF Ringway
AUSTRALIAN WHO SWAM TO THREE OLYMPIC GOLDS IN 2008 STEPHANIE RICE
BRAND OF CARS MANUFACTURED BY AVTOVAZ, A RUSSIAN COMPANY OWNED BY THE RENAULT GROUP LADA
THE SHIRE HORSE OF ANIMAL FARM BOXER
SPANISH DANCE; A SHORT JACKET BOLERO
AN AMPHIBIAN LARVA TADPOLE
THE FOURTH PERSON TO WALK ON THE MOON ALAN BEAN
Andre ____ beat Andrei Medvedev at Roland-Garros in 1999 to complete a career grand slam AGASSI
Nigel Richards is the reigning ____ world champion SCRABBLE
The strip cut by a scythe or mowing machine SWATHE
____, or What You Will TWELFTH NIGHT
Writer and director of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover PETER GREENAWAY
Toyota’s luxury car brand LEXUS
Standard colour of US military vehicles and GI uniforms in the Second World War OLIVE DRAB
____ is a collection regarded as including the earliest prose stories in British literature The Mabinogion
Most ____ elements are in the lanthanide series RARE EARTH
Stand with shelves for displaying ornaments, etc WHATNOT
Medieval literary language, related to French and Catalan PROVENCAL
Legal right to retain another’s property until a debt is paid LIEN
Decadent western culture, according to Rastafarians BABYLON
Jodie Foster’s character in The Silence of the Lambs CLARICE STARLING
Irish-born entertainer, noted for drag and impressions DANNY LA RUE
Informally, a large odd-toed ungulate of Africa and southern Asia RHINO
Former Channel 4 reality TV show narrated by Michael Kitchen FAKING IT
World Rally Drivers’ Championship winner, 2013-2018 Sebastien Ogier
Series of Broadway revue shows staged from 1907 to 1931 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
The pen name of Eric Arthur Blair GEORGE ORWELL
The loser in ____ is left with a card which cannot be paired OLD MAID
1969 road movie with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper EASY RIDER
“In difficult and desperate cases, the ____ counsels are the safest” (Livy) BOLDEST
The line from which a darts player throws OCHE
The largest city of the Crimean peninsula SEVASTOPOL
The Derby is held at this racecourse EPSOM
Philip Hammond succeeded George ____ as chancellor of the exchequer OSBORNE
Mia ____ won two Olympic gold medals and two World Cups with the US women’s national soccer team HAMM
Father of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus IAPETUS
Earth is the best-known example of this type of spheroid OBLATE
Ancient tribe whose most famous leader was Boudicca ICENI
1985 Howard Jones single with a TV parody video by Godley & Creme LIFE IN ONE DAY