The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 07 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Language with the oldest vernacular literature in Western Europe IRISH
HAVING A PALE BROWN-YELLOW COLOUR OCHREOUS
London football club managed by Mikel Arteta ARSENAL
American union leader and criminal, played by Jack Nicholson in a 1992 film JIMMY HOFFA
By PH Newby, the first winner of the Booker Prize Something to Answer For
Ecological zone, often named after its main vegetation BIOME
Fastener with two arms pushed through a hole and bent SPLIT PIN
Carmarthenshire’s largest town LLANELLI
English furniture style of the late 18th century SHERATON
British javelin thrower whose main rival in the 1980s was Petra Felke FATIMA WHITBREAD
____ played Howard Kirk in the 1981 BBC adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man ANTONY SHER
“A ____ cord is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes) THREEFOLD
The former status of this town in Angus is reflected in the name of its football team BRECHIN
“The best bunker buster” according to Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s DIPLOMAT
American social reformer and suffragist who worked closely with Elizabeth Stanton SUSAN B ANTHONY
Star Trek character originally played by James Doohan, and more recently by Simon Pegg MONTGOMERY SCOTT
In French, “faire du ____” is to go cycling VELO
Clerical office which is an anagram of SUNDAY BEER SUBDEANERY
In Zambia, one hundredth of a kwacha NGWEE
The capital of Dominica ROSEAU
Kos, Santorini, and Rhodes are some of the ____ AEGEAN ISLANDS
Mapping or study of the moon’s features SELENOGRAPHY
The first British player to participate in a 20th-century world chess championship final NIGEL SHORT
Canadian tennis player, runner-up to Andy Murray in the 2016 Wimbledon men’s singles final Milos Raonic
____ Kettle were hillbillies with 15 children in a 1940s and 1950s Universal Studios comedy series MA AND PA
Hexahedrons of dehydrated bouillon STOCK CUBES
Australian tennis player, winner of four 1950s grand slam men’s singles titles LEW HOAD
An Italian lady SIGNORA
“If anything might ____ him now / The kind old sun will know” (Wilfred Owen) ROUSE
Roman poet who had a feud with his former friend Nero LUCAN
Animal in the same family as humans and some great apes HOMINID
“Whatever our souls are made of, ____” (Wuthering Heights) HIS AND MINE ARE THE SAME
Malta’s northwesterly island neighbour GOZO
John Major’s successor as leader of the Conservative party William Hague
Grandma and Chalkie often appeared in cartoons by ____ GILES
America golfer, nicknamed The King, who won the Open in 1961 and 1962 ARNOLD PALMER
Leguminous tree whose wood is often used as barbecue fuel in the southern USA MESQUITE
Trader exploiting market imperfections arbitrager
Swiss ski resort, a popular destination for the international jet set GSTAAD
The Isle of Man’s Tynwald comprises the Legislative Council and the ____ HOUSE OF KEYS
The Open University’s home town MILTON KEYNES
THE WINDPIPE TRACHEA
Daughter of Polonius and lover of Hamlet OPHELIA
Aircraft manufacturer founded in Seattle in 1916 BOEING
Skin condition characterised by red blisters and itchiness ECZEMA
A bitter bark formerly used in medicine ANGOSTURA