The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 31

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