The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Popular eating and cooking apple of Australian origin GRANNY SMITH
Musician and poet who collaborated with Pete Doherty of the Libertines and Babyshambles Peter Wolfe
Multi-volume hagiography, started in the 17th century Acta Sanctorum
London’s ____ docks opened in 1806 and closed in 1967 EAST INDIA
Plain white fur used in clothing MINIVER
Until 1920, an Italian car manufacturer’s acronymic name ALFA
“Grow great by your example and put on / The dauntless spirit of ____” (Shakespeare, King John) RESOLUTION
The Greek god of war ARES
The opposite of a vacuum PLENUM
Well-known ____ artists include Henri Rousseau and Beryl Cook NAIVE
Another name for hydrogen cyanide prussic acid
____ declared his presidential candidacy on April 25, 2019 JOE BIDEN
“Whereas an ambiguous statement may be vague by accident or intent, an equivocal one is calculatedly ____” (Bill Bryson, Troublesome Words) UNCLEAR
An ecclesiastical council, or an obsolete word for a conjunction of planets SYNOD
Disneyland is in this Californian city ANAHEIM
Designating the most negative outcome of something worst-case
In Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, the one mentioned after Venezuelan beaver cheese CHEDDAR
Medical term for an abnormally strong appetite, derived from the ancient Greek for “hunger” LIMOSIS
Art gallery owned by Jay Jopling, with two branches in London and one on Hong Kong Island WHITE CUBE
“____ and wisdom are not opposing values” (Bill Clinton) STRENGTH
Also known as the “Cradle of Liberty”, a popular tourist site in Boston, Massachusetts FANEUIL HALL
“Till the injurious Romans did ____ / This tribute from us, we were free” (Shakespeare, Cymbeline) EXTORT
1996 football single featuring Baddiel and Skinner Three Lions
A deer’s horn ANTLER
Henrik ____ wrote Hedda Gabler IBSEN
The first female Ukrainian to break into the top 10 tennis rankings, reaching No 3 in 2017 and 2019 Elina Svitolina
Archaically or in dialect, an ant EMMET
Zoological term meaning “tailless” anurous
Region of western Asia Minor once settled by the Greeks IONIA
Early devices used to help those with poor hearing EAR TRUMPETS
A rhyming game CRAMBO
Pertaining to kissing OSCULAR
A North American born of Japanese immigrant parents NISEI
A ____ question is one which does not invite an answer RHETORICAL
Portia’s maid in The Merchant of Venice NERISSA
The University of Oxford’s motto Dominus illuminatio mea
Early type of motorcycle with a passenger seat in front FORECAR
Framework allowing a vehicle to carry extra luggage ROOF RACK
Usually, the longer of the two main bones of the forearm ULNA
A shivering fit AGUE
US feminist who co-founded the Women’s Media Center with Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan GLORIA STEINEM
Star Trek character played by George Takei HIKARU SULU
Capital of Thessaly and, in myth, the birthplace of Achilles LARISSA
The second-highest civil award for bravery in both Canada and Australia STAR OF COURAGE
Like his brother Denis, ____ played football for Arsenal and cricket for Middlesex LESLIE COMPTON
____ plays for Everton and the Nigerian national team Alex Iwobi
Old name for the Mon-Khmer language of Vietnam ANNAMESE
Manager of Sampdoria, and formerly Leicester City CLAUDIO RANIERI
UK prime minister whose first term in office came between Disraeli’s two WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
A Bakewell tart has this almond-based filling FRANGIPANE