The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Night before an important Christian festival EASTER EVE
Seasonal film featuring an American 2-8-4 Berkshire type steam engine POLAR EXPRESS
Make an important step in wedding planning NAME THE DAY
MOVING IN AN OVERDRAMATIC WAY FLOUNCING
Serious challenge TALL ORDER
Singer with Christmas songs in first and third place on the world all-time bestselling singles list BING CROSBY
Carol with a melody originally used for Nos Galan, a Welsh carol DECK THE HALLS
Description of a musical instrument mentioned in Psalms 33, 92 and 144 ten-stringed
____ PLANTS HAVE SHORT LIFE CYCLES EPHEMERAL
Common component of a traditional British Christmas dinner BREAD SAUCE
Film based on a 1943 short story called The Greatest Gift It's a Wonderful Life
AN ELF, IN A SEASONAL OR SHOWBIZ CONTEXT ASSISTANT
NOT PAYING ATTENTION ASLEEP
German bread traditionally eaten at Christmas STOLLEN
Culicoides impunctatus is the highland ____ MIDGE
If you do this puzzle promptly, it will be over soon OLD YEAR
SCENARIO WHICH MAY LEAD TO BANKRUPTCY debt trap
Joshua’s father in the Old Testament NUN
Some music fans of the early 1980s PUNKETTES
Comedian Max Miller was the “Cheeky ____” CHAPPIE
IN BACKGAMMON, A SINGLE CHECKER ON A POINT BLOT
Foodstuff rated on the Scoville scale CHILLI
Hamlet character in a painting by John Everett Millais OPHELIA
NONSENSE BILGE
1847 Christmas song by Adolphe Adam O HOLY NIGHT
Actor who starred in 2D Jimmy Stewart
“The joys and sorrows sailors find, Coop’d in their winged ____ citadel” (Byron) sea-girt
“____ roasting on an open fire” (The Christmas Song) CHESTNUTS
____’s arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter has soprano and tenor solos for two of the four verses HAROLD DARKE
Seasonal collection which started with a green book in 1961 and continued with an orange one in 1970 CAROLS FOR CHOIRS
IDEALISTIC UTOPIAN
“Edward, I thought I said no more ____” (Twelve Days of Christmas [Correspondence], John Julius Norwich (seventh day)) BIRDS
About 300,000 ____ are offered on the Exchange and Mart website USED CARS
“And ____ love, the way that you do” (I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter) close with
Archipelago which became Scotland’s first Unesco world heritage site in 1986 ST KILDA
Waited for something like Christmas, as we did in our youth counted the hours
“They are useless. They can only give you ____” (Pablo Picasso, on computers) ANSWERS
“The dusky night rides down the sky, / And ____ in the morn” (Henry Fielding) USHERS
“____ homo factus est / Natura mirante” (Gaudete) DEUS
Although not mentioned in the laws of either code, ____ is seen as one of rugby’s most heinous acts GOUGING
Trixie’s health initiative at the beginning of series five of Call the Midwife keep-fit class
The nature of posh people dressed for a Boxing Day walk? tweediness
INTERGOVERNMENTAL GROUPING, FOUNDED IN ADDIS ABABA IN 1963 OAU
IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF AN ENIGMA MACHINE ROTOR
FRACTION SOMETIMES INDICATED BY THE GREEK LETTER MU MILLIONTH
DOME-SHAPED HOME OF BEAVERS LODGE
WHAT MOMMY WAS SEEN DOING IN A SONG RECORDED BY JIMMY BOYD IN 1952 Kissing Santa Claus
LEVERS ARE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE ____, RESISTANCE AND EFFORT FULCRUM
A ____ CAMERA MAY SHOW YOU MORE ABOUT THE BIRD LIFE IN YOUR GARDEN NEST BOX
MADLY IN LOVE MOONSTRUCK
TOP GADGET GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS 2010, ACCORDING TO A UK CONSUMER SURVEY IPAD
PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWPOINT DESCRIBED BY TURGENEV IN FATHERS AND SONS NIHILISM
AN ORGANIC COMPOUND WITH THE GROUP -O- IN ITS MOLECULES ETHER
RELATING TO THE CREATION OF LEGISLATION law-giving
Pudding of a different style to a Christmas pudding WHIP
Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire crowned its ____ Queen on December 7 MISTLETOE
PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL WHICH WON THE 2002 MAN BOOKER PRIZE LIFE OF PI
The type of sleigh portrayed in one movement of Prokoviev’s Lieutenant Kijé suite TROIKA
SONGS IMITATED IN SOME CHRISTMAS CAROLS LULLABIES