The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 11 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
FIELD GLASSES BINOCULARS
A house in Italy or Spain CASA
A Shia religious leader AYATOLLAH
African country formerly called Nyasaland MALAWI
An enemy aircraft, in Second World War RAF lingo BANDIT
Become enclosed in an abnormal bodily sac ENCYST
Celestial body, from a Greek word meaning “wanderer” PLANET
A Eucharistic offering to God OBLATION
A designer of haute couture FASHIONISTA
A boisterous laugh GUFFAW
“Great drama […] must have dimension and its ____ will take care of itself” (Robertson Davies) RELEVANCE
Beer, to an Australian SHERBET
Fiercely determined TIGERISH
The youngest winner (at age 29) of a best actor Oscar, for his role in The Pianist Adrien Brody
Star Trek: Voyager character portrayed by Garrett Wang Harry Kim
One of two cells which combine to form a zygote GAMETE
Narrator and central character of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson DAVID BALFOUR
Former county named after its main river AVON
The UK’s biggest selling single of 1971 MY SWEET LORD
An American illusionist; a Charles Dickens novel DAVID COPPERFIELD
America’s “Beaver State” OREGON
Former England manager popularly known as El Tel TERRY VENABLES
Inflammation of glands, especially lymph nodes ADENITIS
Three-syllable phrase abbreviated in nine syllables WORLD WIDE WEB
Welsh valleys CWMS
____ was originally called Byzantium ISTANBUL
Form of Buddhism practised in Myanmar and Thailand THERAVADA