The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 10 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Former statute which excluded women from succession to the French crown SALIC LAW
Geological theory which made Alfred Wegener’s concept of continental drift widely accepted PLATE TECTONICS
1987 Wim Wenders film about immortal angels in Berlin Wings Of Desire
Soviet Russia’s news agency, created in 1925 TASS
Cigarette brand, a sponsor of the former Equipe Ligier Formula One team GITANES
Along with Walking Tune and Mock Morris, Handel in ____ was one of Percy Grainger’s “Room-music tit-bits” THE STRAND
Of a cow, pregnant IN CALF
A genus of succulent plants with thick tapering leaves ALOE
First name of the central character in The Last of The Mohicans NATHANIEL
Presenter of BBC News at Six since 2003 George Alagiah
Tennyson’s name for cicadas, apparently a mistranslation from German balm-crickets
Sykurmolarnir, the group which launched the career of Björk The Sugarcubes
General of the Volscian army in Coriolanus TULLUS AUFIDIUS
Himalayan region, also called Little Tibet, to the south of K2 baltistan
BROTHERS AND SISTERS SIBLINGS
“Royally? Why, it ____ no king?” (Richard II) CONTAINS
Casual clothing LEISUREWEAR
One who has abandoned their religion APOSTATE
Traditional Christmas desserts PLUM PUDDINGS
Short railway tracks used for shunting or storage SIDINGS
A West Indian gang member YARDIE
Extemporised remarks ad-libs
Informally, in a helpless position OVER A BARREL
Director of Dog Day Afternoon SIDNEY LUMET
The extreme sport of jumping into the sea from a cliff tombstoning
A name for the House of Lords Gilded Chamber
Building material made with earth, water and organic material such as straw ADOBE
Archaically, a bottomless pit ABYSM
“I humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry meeting may be wished, God ____ it!” (Much Ado About Nothing) PROHIBIT
Coastal town, south of Cardiff, once known as the Garden by the Sea PENARTH
Opening track of the Beatles album Abbey Road COME TOGETHER
According to a blue plaque on ____, it was the site of the world’s first regular high definition TV broadcasts, in 1936 ALEXANDRA PALACE
To succeed, or to bribe PAY OFF
Those which consisted of ten asses in ancient Rome DENARII
Became swollen tumesced
“Our happiest moments are spent trying to ____ new varieties of victimhood” (JG Ballard) THINK UP
Poetic word for a male lover or suitor SWAIN
The penultimate collaboration of Gilbert and Sullivan UTOPIA LIMITED
The quality of being meagre or scarce EXIGUITY
Of a nerve, conveying impulses towards the brain or spinal column AFFERENT
The ____ is also known as Custer’s Last Stand Battle of Little Bighorn
1945 children’s novel by E B White, adapted as a partly animated film in 1999 STUART LITTLE
Canadian comedian who presents the BBC Two reality series Hair Katherine Ryan
Any organic compound containing the divalent radical –CO.NH.CO.– IMIDE
Francis Xavier ____ is the protagonist of four comic novels by Anthony Burgess ENDERBY
Iconic Star Wars line delivered by Obi-Wan Kenobi USE THE FORCE LUKE