The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ALLURE TEMPT
16th-century luthier Andrea ____ is credited with originating the violin, viola and cello AMATI
Pianist star of At the Drop of a Hat DONALD SWANN
“It’s not ____ if they’re really after you” (tagline of the 1998 film Enemy of the State) PARANOIA
“Please speak now” on radio or TV OVER TO YOU
19th-century singer Jenny Lind was the “Swedish ____” NIGHTINGALE
A daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne ERATO
Affaire d’____, a duel HONNEUR
African antelope with lyre-shaped horns IMPALA
American term for a dinner jacket TUXEDO
Old Scottish love song also known as Maxwelton Braes ANNIE LAURIE
Part of a horse’s foot between the fetlock and the hoof PASTERN
Prominent rock on southwestern moorland TOR
Sir ____ is Olivia’s uncle in Twelfth Night TOBY BELCH
Sobriquet of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick KINGMAKER
Style of beard worn by Lenin and Boris Becker GOATEE
The Dandy’s wild-west strong man who ate cow pies DESPERATE DAN
The dominant high jumping technique before the more efficient straddle replaced it in the 1950s WESTERN ROLL
The parasitic plant Viscum album MISTLETOE
The ____ of Man, Jacob Bronowski’s 1973 TV series about the development of science and philosophy ASCENT
To take ____ is to support one group rather than another SIDES
Unlike most plant fossils, ____ wood preserves the three-dimensional form of the original organic material PETRIFIED
Unwanted irregular fluctuations accompanying a transmitted electrical signal NOISE
US title of an unconventional 1961 film directed by Alain Resnais, about relationships between aristocrats LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
____ and Treacle, the 1976 Dennis Potter TV play starring Denholm Elliott which was not transmitted until 1987 BRIMSTONE
The farthing was thus after 1956 OBSOLESCENT
Michael ____ was appointed as environment minister by both Margaret Thatcher and John Major HESELTINE
Sauce of egg yolks, lemon juice, butter, shallots and herbs BEARNAISE
Alternative to “stalls” as the name of a theatre seating area ORCHESTRA
An imaginary place where all is as bad as it could be DYSTOPIA
Nickname of Newcastle United MAGPIES
Maybe the amount that “makes the medicine go down” TEASPOONFUL
Its novels are The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let THE FORSYTE SAGA
It develops into a plant’s seed after fertilisation OVULE
Henry IV’s ____ of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV’s ____ of Fontainebleau EDICT
Great ____, large seabird, extinct since the mid-19th century AUK
Golf club used to reach the green or get out of a hazard WEDGE
Fourth highest mountain in the world LHOTSE
Feroze ____’s wife and elder son both became prime ministers of India GANDHI
England’s cricket hero in the 2019 World Cup final … BEN STOKES
Early device for measuring the altitude of stars ASTROLABE
Duluth and Thunder Bay lie on the shore of this large body of fresh water LAKE SUPERIOR
At serious risk ON THE LINE
Australian baobabs Bottle trees
Cochons sauvages sangliers
An opening in a battlement for shooting through EMBRASURE
See 17A THEYEAR
& 20A: … and the award he received on BBC TV on December 15 sports personality of
“Yodelling” pop singer, first UK-based performer to have three consecutive UK No 1 hits, in 1962 Frank Ifield
THE WILD PANSY Love-in-idleness