The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 12

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Henry IV’s ____ of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV’s ____ of Fontainebleau EDICT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