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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 23
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
Blue-black fruit often used in gin or jelly
DAMSON
“And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was ____” (Mark 1:42)
CLEANSED
Island nation invaded by US forces in 1983
GRENADA
Infectious agent believed to cause BSE
PRION
Actor who has played Karl Kennedy in over 3,700 episodes of Neighbours
Alan Fletcher
Competitive shooting sport developed in the early 1980s
PAINTBALL
The oldest city of the ancient Assyrian empire and its capital during the reign of Sennacherib, later destroyed in 612BC
NINEVEH
Largest city in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino canton
LUGANO
LARGE FURNITURE VAN
PANTECHNICON
Actress who played Demelza in the 1970s BBC Poldark series
Angharad Rees
SMALL SHALLOW BOWL FOR OENOPHILES
TASTEVIN
Something carried by a pageboy, traditionally
TRAIN
Affected by the condition once called “Derbyshire neck”
GOITROUS
ITV 1970s comedy classic with a black and white cat called Vienna
RISING DAMP
Informally, a member of a minority group outside the 1900 union of the two main Scottish Presbyterian churches
WEE FREE
Sportsman such as Kevin Mayer or Roman Sebrle
DECATHLETE
A pseudo-Arabic name, probably invented by Paracelsus, for the hypothetical universal solvent sought by alchemists
ALKAHEST
Lighting control which varies brightness in a room
DIMMER SWITCH
A showcase for impressionists, broadcast on both Radio 4 and BBC2
DEAD RINGERS
1981 Disney flop in which a comic book writer attempts to fly like his fictional creation
condorman
From Italian, a name for Ottoman empire slave quarters
BAGNIO
Unwanted noise on a phone or radio
STATIC
A design created by inlaying gold or silver on steel
DAMASCENE
Third-largest city in Wales, near the mouth of the River Usk
NEWPORT
Daily newspaper whose new editor, Roula Khalaf, succeeded Lionel Barber in January
FINANCIAL TIMES
Presenter of Only Connect on BBC2
VICTORIA COREN MITCHELL
Surname of a Manchester United goalkeeper; later the name of Chesney’s Great Dane in Coronation Street
SCHMEICHEL
1980s US crime drama series featuring Crockett and Tubbs
MIAMI VICE
THE ____ TAPES, 2015 HORROR FILM ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESSION
VATICAN
Mountainous “breathing space” created in 1951, which includes the Glyders and Cader Idris
Snowdonia National Park
“Six songs from ____” is George Butterworth’s 1911 baritone and piano setting of poems by AE Housman
A SHROPSHIRE LAD
DOROTHY ____ WON HER FIRST EVENING STANDARD BEST ACTRESS AWARD FOR PLAYING VIOLA IN THE 1960 RSC PRODUCTION OF TWELFTH NIGHT
TUTIN
Capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina
SARAJEVO
OF SNOW, DESCENDING RAPIDLY DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE
AVALANCHING
Jordan’s capital city
AMMAN
____ replaced Lagos as the capital of Nigeria in 1991
ABUJA
Irish name for a cudgel made of oak or blackthorn
SHILLELAGH
Pips on the hour on radio or TV
time signal
In Britain, an open space surrounded by cloisters
GARTH
A white skull and crossbones on a black field
JOLLY ROGER
The world’s second-largest religion
ISLAM
Nation which had no national parks until 2002
SCOTLAND
A black-and-white photo
MONOCHROME
Fruit with drupelets, a hybrid created accidentally in California in 1881
LOGANBERRY
Members of an ascetic Jewish sect, active from approximately 200BC to 100AD
ESSENES
Forename of George Eliot’s “Weaver of Raveloe”
SILAS