The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 03 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
THE NEAREST CITY TO THE RUINS OF ANCIENT CARTHAGE TUNIS
Pat ____ was a player in Arsenal’s 1971 double-winning team, and assistant manager when they won two other doubles RICE
CAR MANUFACTURER, OF MODEL S AND MODEL X TESLA
In Othello, the jealous lover of Cassio BIANCA
A COLLOQUIAL DESCRIPTION OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING UNWANTED, ESPECIALLY WHEN REAPPEARING BAD PENNY
Goethe play for which Beethoven wrote incidental music including an overture EGMONT
A mournful song, especially performed by a single voice MONODY
British astronomer credited with coining the phrase “big bang” Fred Hoyle
“____ / Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard” (Cymbeline) WEARINESS
“The secrets of the hoary deep, ____ without bound” (Paradise Lost) A DARK ILLIMITABLE OCEAN
Of film, music etc, recorded and ready for release IN THE CAN
Informally, “a lot” NO END
To date, Denmark’s only female prime minister, currently chief executive of Save the Children Helle Thorning-Schmidt
An illusion of countryside created within a city RUS IN URBE
Art of making timepieces, or science of measuring time HOROLOGY
British guitarist, the only person to be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame three times ERIC CLAPTON
An Italian dish, literally a medley of fried things FRITTO MISTO
On an Italian menu, secondi piatti MAIN COURSES
Type of stamp which may be produced in wartime, or when a currency changes OVERPRINT
Pennsylvania is known as the ____ state KEYSTONE
& 34: The first line of Peter Pan ALL CHILDREN EXCEPT ONE
“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the ____ doorman. Every time I’ve stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again” (David Mitchell, in Cloud Atlas) CRAFTIEST
American term for a pushchair STROLLER
Joseph ____ wrote Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim CONRAD
To add a new part to something originally made without it RETROFIT
The term “impressionism” was derived from a painting by this French artist CLAUDE MONET
An animal that eats seeds GRANIVORE
As a pejorative term, an alternative to “blackleg” SCAB
Member of a Turkic ethnic group in eastern Siberia YAKUT
Those who, in law, are now commonly called claimants PLAINTIFFS
Male given name which means “protector of wealth” EDWARD
Russian dog, the first animal to orbit the earth, in 1957 LAIKA
Bertie Wooster’s haughty and overbearing aunt AGATHA
A state or culture characterised by humanitarianism, equality and political freedom open society
“There’s such a ____ in melancholy / I would not, if I could, be gay” (Samuel Rogers) CHARM
Work done by IGN and Freytag & Berndt MAPMAKING
North American insect, with notable eyespots IO MOTH
____ sang with Lionel Richie in the 1981 hit Endless Love DIANA ROSS
A second burial, normally in a different place reinterment
One of the two forms of English in Orwell’s 1984 oldspeak
William Morris was a leader of this decorative trend ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
Partner in an activity who watches out for another’s safety BUDDY
Central character of a Hardy novel with seven “phases” TESS DURBEYFIELD
SEE 31 GROW UP
One who believes there is no universe, or no universe separate from God acosmist
Actress who starred as Miss Marple on ITV, 2004-09 Geraldine McEwan
Features of Wagner’s Ring, sometimes given names like “Magic sleep” or “Wotan’s will frustrated” LEITMOTIFS
Grammatical term describing Mary in both “Mary loved John” and “John was loved by Mary” AGENT