The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Our style guide warns against confusing “____” and “imply” INFER
This German island was British territory from 1807 to 1890 HELIGOLAND
In a particular sporting context, to make a faulty stroke catch a crab
Chris Evans first hosted ____ on Channel 4 in 1996 TFI Friday
Shape made by rotating an ellipse around its minor axis oblate spheroid
Sport in which a road race from London to Brighton was once a major event ultra running
The debut album of Marvin Lee Aday, aka Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell
____ appeared in early episodes of The Goon Show and later made a puppet-based children’s TV series Michael Bentine
Wild feline living in alpine and forest regions in two continents Eurasian lynx
In 1992, Leicester Polytechnic became ____ University de Montfort
A children’s novel and TV series about a girl who lives in a residential care home The Story of Tracy Beaker
Organisation which gave Vladimir Putin an ID pass in 1985 STASI
Surname of Miss Ellie and Sue Ellen in an American soap EWING
An often unstable column of glacial ice SERAC
Like Miss Havisham and her home in Great Expectations COBWEBBY
A ____ shower has no rain METEOR
A message which is not enciphered is described as ____ EN CLAIR
A French-based term for a helmet CASQUE
A decisive gun-fight or part of a sporting contest shoot-out
A confusingly named dark fruit paste damson cheese
“Sainsbury’s apologises for ____ faux pas in Cornwall” (Times headline in 2021) CREAM TEA