The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The first UK National Hunt jockey to record 150 wins in one season, in 1988-89 Peter Scudamore
Former Revolutionary Communist Party member, later a Brexit Party MEP, recently nominated for a peerage Claire Fox
The Sheik of ____ is a jazz standard, covered by the Beatles in their unsuccessful audition for Decca in 1962 ARABY
2013 film comedy about a bogus family including a drug dealer, virgin, stripper, and runaway We're The Millers
IN GREEK MYTH, THE SON OF CLYTEMNESTRA AND AGAMEMNON ORESTES
Alternative name for a Tibetan monastery LAMASERAI
Particle in a cell which synthesises protein RIBOSOME
French winner of the World Rally Championship six times, 2013-18 Sebastien Ogier
One of the front four teeth in each human jaw INCISOR
Victor Hugo character rarely seen without her goat, Djali ESMERALDA
French director whose films included Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) and Muriel ALAIN RESNAIS
Main location of the Jim Carrey comedy film The Mask Edge City
Noel Gay musical featuring The Lambeth Walk Me and My Girl
A southwestern Pacific island was named after this English county NORFOLK
The navigational head of the Missouri River is at ____, Iowa SIOUX CITY
Final novel in Henry Miller’s controversial trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion NEXUS
Historical region associated with the Dracula stories TRANSYLVANIA
Documents issued to neutral merchant vessels to allow safe passage during wartime sea letters
1973 Martin Scorsese film starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro MEAN STREETS
A widow or unmarried woman, or one who trades independently of her husband feme sole
The London Peace Pagoda is in ____ Park BATTERSEA
Medical term for lack of strength, rare in British usage ADYNAMIA
Rust is hydrated ____ IRON OXIDE
Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker was based on a story by this German author E T A Hoffmann
American actress, a L’Oréal “spokesmodel” since 1985 ANDIE MACDOWELL
Entirely (from Latin) IN TOTO
The role of Camilla Long at the Sunday Times FILM CRITIC
Main antagonist of The Merchant of Venice SHYLOCK
“Everyone leaves” as a stage instruction EXEUNT OMNES
1/x is the ____ of x RECIPROCAL
Argentinian footballer who died in a plane crash in 2019 Emiliano Sala
____ onions are often pickled SILVERSKIN
Shields bearing coats of arms ESCUTCHEONS
Edinburgh’s port LEITH
London street; the British government or civil service WHITEHALL
Greek island whose principal town is Myrina LEMNOS
Someone from Muscat or Salalah OMANI
Italian city, home of the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari IMOLA
Conventional title of Psalm 51 MISERERE
“When you tell people that you are studying maths at uni, they are like, ‘Oh …’. Especially a blonde ____ girl” (Rachel Riley) ESSEX
Philip ____ wrote The Duke of Milan MASSINGER
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the character named after a car FORD PREFECT
Device attached to film cameras which allows four bursts of illumination FLASHCUBE
Dianthus barbatus, a garden pink SWEET WILLIAM
To remove a harness or, more generally, set free UNYOKE
Irish city on the banks of the River Nore in Leinster KILKENNY
Vessel with wing-like structures raising its hull at speed HYDROFOIL
Rush mat commonly used as a floor covering in Japan TATAMI