The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
MISUSE OF THERAPY BELIEVED TO BE HYPOTHETICAL, BUT BANNED IN SPORT BY THE WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY IN 2003 GENE DOPING
Grammatical feature of Latin and German dative case
____ of Scotland is a clothing company, whose website claims that it coined the term “knitwear” PRINGLE
Simon Pegg’s co-star in such films as Hot Fuzz and Paul NICK FROST
Form of off-road racing which evolved from trials riding MOTOCROSS
PIGMENT OF VARIOUS COLOURS FROM YELLOW TO BROWN OCHRE
Resort formerly promoted as the “suntrap of the south” EASTBOURNE
Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001 VS Naipaul
To work too hard OVERDO IT
____ PLAINS ARE CREATED BY LONG-TERM DEPOSITION OF SEDIMENT BY RIVERS ALLUVIAL
A period of (typically) US medical training INTERNSHIP
THE 200TH UK NO 1 SINGLE, IN 1965 HELP
A FIREARM SO NAMED FOR THE PROCESS OF ADDING A SPIRAL GROOVE IN THE BARREL RIFLE
A nickname of Arizona Apache State
Marsupial, roughly the size of a rabbit rat-kangaroo
PRACTICALLY ESSENTIAL PART OF A SENTENCE NOUN PHRASE
Portable free-reed organs ACCORDIONS
What Anthony Burgess called “the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers […] demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight” SLANG
“These ____s are the principal agents of disembodied but never visible spirits” (Madame Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled, 1877) ELEMENTAL
Only one prime number is ____ EVEN
A witticism jeu d'esprit
To date, the only female Prime Minister of France EDITH CRESSON
Actress who won an Oscar for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator CATE BLANCHETT
The sequel to Saturday Night Fever STAYING ALIVE
One who specialises in the classification of diseases NOSOLOGIST
1980s sitcom starring Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton Ever Decreasing Circles
____ Tanaka is a Bond ally in You Only Live Twice TIGER
The ____ are sea stacks at the west end of the Isle of Wight NEEDLES
Remarkable people or things PHENOMENA
UK game show based on the final stage of the Netherlands show Miljoenenjacht DEAL OR NO DEAL
Infusion made with immature or minimally processed leaves WHITE TEA
Facetiously, a feigned display of environmental concern GREENWASH
THEATRES OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME ODEONS
Slight forward convergence in car wheels to improve steering and equalize tyre wear toe-in
One authorised to remove property until a debt is paid SEQUESTRATOR
FORMER PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA, NOW COMBINED WITH KWAZULU NATAL
“People definitely did that in ____ when I was growing up” (Alan Davies on QI, on Romans vomiting to carry on eating) PUBS
____ is worth £200 on the usual British Monopoly board VINE STREET
Former Arsenal midfielder who joined Liverpool in August 2017 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
SI unit of electromotive force VOLT
Organ stop representing the characteristic organ sound DIAPASON
Max ____ was Kafka’s literary executor who disobeyed his instruction to burn his unpublished works BROD
The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours is also called Divine ____ OFFICE
British artist, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis LUCIAN FREUD
FISH OF THE ORDER ANGUILLIFORMES EELS
Sport introduced to the Olympic Games in 1988 TABLE TENNIS
Comedians for whom Raleigh made a three-man tandem THE GOODIES
____’s lines in Do They Know It’s Christmas began “But say a prayer” GEORGE MICHAEL