The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Singer whose 2010 debut album Lights entered the UK charts at No 1 ELLIE GOULDING
“The ____s were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke” (Antony and Cleopatra) OAR
Brand name shown on many speed cameras GATSO
Comic actor who played Ken in the “Suits you” sketches Paul Whitehouse
BOX FROM WHICH CARDS ARE DEALT IN A CASINO SHOE
The Girls of ____ is a Muriel Spark novel about hard times in Kensington in 1945 SLENDER MEANS
PIKE-LIKE FISH OF THE BELONE GENUS GAR
'Not the ____ which blows no man to good' (Pistol, in King Henry IV) ILL WIND
According to the Church of England’s Table of Kindred and Affinity, a man may not marry his ____ NIECE
1979 ALBUM BY FLEETWOOD MAC TUSK
Author of the Inspector Morse novels COLIN DEXTER
Air-filled skull cavity, a Latin word meaning “curve” or “pocket” SINUS
In Roman myth, a son of the vestal virgin Rhea Silvia REMUS
The fact-obsessed school board superintendent in Hard Times THOMAS GRADGRIND
FORM OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, DEVISED BY MIKAO USUI REIKI
COLOURLESS VISCOUS LIQUID USED TO SWEETEN FOOD AND THICKEN LIQUEURS GLYCEROL
Canadian crime comedy series about mountie Benton Fraser’s adventures in Chicago DUE SOUTH
UNLEAVENED BREAD EATEN DURING PASSOVER MATZO
Short thrusting sword in use until the 17th century ESTOC
Devon town, with England’s most westerly racecourse NEWTON ABBOT
Jean Hill, witness to the assassination of John F Kennedy, was known as the ____ LADY IN RED
Sport named after a Warwickshire school RUGBY
Actor who played butler Benson in the US sitcom Soap Robert Guillaume
Ferdinand II of ____ and Isabella I of Castile were Spain’s “Catholic Monarchs” ARAGON
A CATAFALQUE IS OFTEN USED IN THIS CEREMONIAL EVENT LYING IN STATE
THOMAS HARDY POEM ABOUT THE EVENING CHORUS OF BIRDS PROUD SONGSTERS
Jamaican-born US 400m runner, world No 1, 2005-09 Sanya Richards-Ross
The sum of four consecutive primes, the first being 193 EIGHT HUNDRED
19th-century Italian painter best known for his Alpine landscapes Giovanni Segantini
AN UNSKILLED COMPUTER HACKER WHO MAKES USE OF EXISTING CODE script kiddie
Artistic presentation in which performers are motionless TABLEAU VIVANT
MAMMAL WITH LIPS BUT NO TEETH ANTEATER
OBSOLETE DOUBLE REED INSTRUMENT PITCHED BELOW THE OBOE TENOROON
Bernard ____ was a fictional scientist on 1950s BBC TV QUATERMASS
Driver who in 1995 became (and remains) the youngest ever winner of the World Rally Championship Colin McRae
National anthem whose original title translates as “War Song for the Army of the Rhine” MARSEILLAISE
BRITISH NAME FOR AN X-RAY DEVICE USED IN SHOE SHOPS DURING FITTING IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY PEDOSCOPE
If you do this in bridge, your opponents will almost certainly score 50 or more points above the line OVERBID
In spite of what has just been stated EVEN THEN
LOVER OF PEGEEN IN THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD Shawn Keogh
Ancient Scandinavian brass instrument LUR
The snowflake genus LEUCOJUM
A male or female factotum PERSON FRIDAY
A mother who gave birth when over 100 years old, according to chapter 5 of Genesis EVE
Name for a Cambridge University undergraduate course TRIPOS
Canadian author of The Handmaid’s Tale MARGARET ATWOOD
SMALL PIPE ON THE SIDE OR ROOF OF MANY HOUSES BOILER FLUE
Handel pastoral opera based on characters in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Acis and Galatea