The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 03 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A unit of atmospheric pressure BAR
Type of hat apparently named after a play by Victorien Sardou FEDORA
Del Shannon’s first single, a 1961 No 1 hit in the USA and UK RUNAWAY
A light form of lava often used as an abrasive PUMICE
Mary ____ won Olympic pentathlon gold in 1972 PETERS
Collection of 39 essays by G K Chesterton, published in 1910 Alarms and Discursions
The fruit of a rose HIP
Bread from the northeast, often served with a savoury filling stottie cake
“____ is a contradiction in terms” (Groucho Marx) MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Acted like Baron Munchausen SPUN A YARN
Pseudonym of former Daily Telegraph columnist Michael Wharton PETER SIMPLE
Shipping forecast sea area including the Bristol Channel LUNDY
Fasteners with hexagonal sockets Allen screws
NAME FOR SEVERAL RIVERS IN SOUTHWEST ENGLAND, INCLUDING TWO TRIBUTARIES OF THE TAW AND THREE OF THE AXE YEO
Marine reptile, common during the Jurassic period PLESIOSAUR
Tanker used to carry or supply fuel, water etc BOWSER
Coined during the First World War, a name for the condition commonly abbreviated as PTSD SHELL SHOCK
PART OF THE EYE SURROUNDED BY THE IRIS PUPIL
Final single released by the Beatles THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
To intend PLAN ON
The second-largest moon of Saturn RHEA
Large marine creature sometimes called blackfish PILOT WHALE
Actor famous for playing Count Dracula CHRISTOPHER LEE
British manufacturing company which abandoned its electric car project last October DYSON
Foul-smelling weasel relative, Mustela putorius POLECAT
AN AREA OF OPEN GRASSLAND, ALSO A MEASURE OF YARN LEA
An Appalachian yokel HILLBILLY
To disinter EXHUME
In the USA, “heinies” BACKSIDES
South African group who performed on the 1986 Paul Simon album Graceland Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Estuary in the US states of Maryland and Virginia CHESAPEAKE BAY
Magazine such as Good Housekeeping or National Geographic MONTHLY
Boxer who defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 to win his first world heavyweight title GEORGE FOREMAN
“And ____ canker lives in sweetest bud. / All men make faults”(Shakespeare, Sonnet 35) LOATHSOME
Person used to advantage by another cat's-paw
Skill possessed by safe drivers and pedestrians ROAD SENSE
1966 Elvis Presley single, released with Spinout on the other side ALL THAT I AM
REMOVE MOST OF THE MOISTURE FROM SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY CLOTHING damp-dry
The longest-serving presenter of Tomorrow’s World Judith Hann
Italian city reached at the end of the longest one-day race in professional cycling SAN REMO
Irrational fear of open or public places AGORAPHOBIA
An alternative to “annoy” often seen in the past tense DISGRUNTLE
In theology, relating to matters of death, judgement etc ESCHATOLOGICAL
____ and Ben Affleck co-wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting MATT DAMON
“We are in Afghanistan because this is ____ necessary war” (David Miliband, writing in 2009) EVERY BIT A
Vegetable commonly used to fill burritos PINTO BEAN
Bill ____’s Croydon North West by-election win in 1981 was the first parliamentary victory for the SDP-Liberal Alliance PITT
2019 film, a live-action version of a 1941 Walt Disney film DUMBO