The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Capital city whose name comes from an Algonquin word meaning “to trade” OTTAWA
French equivalent of “Shut up!” tais-toi
Geological epoch from 23 to 5 million years ago, in which bipedal hominids evolved MIOCENE
Hablot Knight ____ illustrated many Dickens novels BROWNE
Host of BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze MICHAEL BUERK
In India, a mountain pass, a river landing place, or a cremation site GHAT
Large and fast-moving fish related to mackerel WAHOO
Material which transports fat molecules in, for example, blood plasma LIPOPROTEIN
Musca domestica, in plural houseflies
Musical instruction usually following a pizzicato section ARCO
Named by a Spanish expedition in 1606, Vanuatu’s largest island Espiritu Santo
One-word anagram of IT’S ALL TRUE ILLUSTRATE
Senior barrister often referred to as a silk King's Counsel
Shakespeare tragedy; its eponymous Roman general has a daughter called Lavinia Titus Andronicus
Singer whose first UK No 1 single was Burn ELLIE GOULDING
The Bank of England’s lending index base rate
The ____ are members of class 2B at a school in Beanotown Bash Street Kids
William H Macy’s co-star, as Amanda Kirby, in Jurassic Park III Tea Leoni
RIGHT-HAND PAGE OF AN OPEN BOOK RECTO
A possible one-word summary of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar TYRANNICIDE
A person’s ghostly spitting image DOPPELGANGER
A more specific word, such as “chair” for “furniture” HYPONYM
A folded and filled tortilla TACO
A FEMALE SHEEP EWE
A complex road interchange or a tangle of parts like electrical cables Spaghetti Junction
A classical music piece, often lively and not following standard form — Tchaikovsky wrote one inspired by a trip to Rome CAPRICCIO
A brake pad holder CALIPER
MYOPIC short-sighted
1945 conference site and capital of Brandenburg POTSDAM