The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Actor whose most famous role was that of Alf Garnett Warren Mitchell
Russian name for a legislative assembly’s lower house DUMA
Grange Hill character given a spin-off series, 1983-1985 TUCKER JENKINS
A regular presenter of the world’s longest-running children’s TV show, from 1962 to 1972 VALERIE SINGLETON
Henry David ____ wrote Walden THOREAU
Sans-serif typeface created by Hermann Zapf and released in 1958 OPTIMA
A large animal; slang for money RHINO
Greek city linked to Epirus by the country’s only undersea tunnel preveza
Canova sculpture in St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum THREE GRACES
River after which one of Germany’s states is named SAAR
Will-o’-the-wisp, or a delusive hope IGNIS FATUUS
The first word of a fairy tale, typically ONCE
GREEK GOD OF THE SUN APOLLO
“About the sixth hour, when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that ____ which is called supper” (Love’s Labour’s Lost) NOURISHMENT
Location of Caledonian MacBrayne’s busiest terminal OBAN
A SMALL ISLAND IN A RIVER EYOT
Informally, the Deutsches Reich, 1918-1933 WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Site of the battle which started the American Civil War FORT SUMTER
Main character of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted video games Nathan Drake
Polish pianist and composer who served as his country’s prime minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Also known as Bury Park, Luton Town FC’s former home ground DUNSTABLE ROAD
____ performed the theme tune to the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only SHEENA EASTON
A semicircular moulding, especially at the top or bottom of a column ASTRAGAL
Fruit sometimes called a “shaved peach” NECTARINE
The lioness in Born Free ELSA
To walk in an ostentatious way (from a step in square dancing) SASHAY
Toxic gas whose chemical formula is a refusal NITRIC OXIDE
OF THE EAR OTIC
A tool used for cutting and shaping wood ADZE
____ Island is the northernmost part of Northern Ireland RATHLIN
Popular resort of Sydney, New South Wales BONDI BEACH
Denoting a physical action stimulated by thought Ideomotor
Luciano ____ (1937-2005), Italian tenor PAVAROTTI
Character from a symbol font (computing) or, in America, a wild party WINGDING
Just before going to bed LAST THING
Rhythmical stress in prosody, or a sudden attack caused by a medical condition ICTUS
The battle of ____ was America’s first major offensive in France during the First World War Saint-Mihiel
The form of skiing which is not Nordic ALPINE
To call abundance in solo whist and take eight tricks OVERBID
WEAK GLUE-LIKE MIXTURE USED TO PREPARE WALLS BEFORE PAPERING OR PLASTERING SIZE
The ____ di Siena is a horse race first held in its “modern” form in 1633 PALIO
The spore-bearing inner mass of puffball fungi GLEBA
French fashion designer who co-hosted the 1990s TV series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes Jean-Paul Gaultier
____ join a hardback book’s covers and pages ENDPAPERS
One of Pakistan’s two official languages URDU
“The moon’s an ____ thief” (Timon of Athens) ARRANT
Philosopher associated with the concept of the superman NIETZSCHE
Fictional diarist created by Helen Fielding for a newspaper column in 1995 BRIDGET JONES
FILM DIRECTOR WHO WON TWO OSCARS FOR GANDHI RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
Ancient Turkish city, the birthplace of St Paul TARSUS