Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
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- 1.Pauley Perrette plays gothic forensic scientist ____ Sciuto in NCIS
- 2.To sing while rapidly switching from natural to falsetto
- 3.“With maximum effort”, referring to old technology
- 4.Capital of Australias Victoria state
- 5.Official language of Cambodia
- 6.The ____ is based on memoirs of governess Anna Leonowens
- 7.Area of central Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea
- 8.Main antagonist of Mervyn Peakes Gormenghast trilogy
- 9.Terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, some of which slowed the progress of Allied forces in Operation Overlord
- 10.Anglicised name for Mongolias capital
- 11.In America, any fizzy soft drink
- 12.Actress who played Nefer in The Egyptian
- 13.Small marsupial made popular in a game, originally for the Sony PlayStation
- 14.Gourd fruit with a striped skin
- 15.A Roman greeting or a soothing ointment
- 16.Silky cloth with raised design
- 17.European explorer who discovered New Zealand
- 18.A decorative frill around the neck, also a variety of sandpiper
- 19.Release eggs
- 20.Water-borne sheet detached from an ice field
- 21.Cumbrian river which enters the Irish Sea at Workington
- 22.1978 John Irving novel, later a film starring Robin Williams
- 23.Popular music pianist born Trevor Stanford
- 24.Urchin
- 25.Conic section with two focal points
- 26.And, like the baseless ____ of this vision / The cloud-capped towers … (The Tempest)
- 27.Peter Cook and Dudley Moores 1960s TV show
- 28.To stop a sailing vessels progress
- 29.Clergyman ranked below priest
- 30.Owner of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire
- 31.This instrument of Austria and Switzerland inspired a theme in the finale of Brahmss first symphony
- 32.“At the present moment, the whole ____s lit up. When I say ‘lit up I mean lit up by fairy lamps” (Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Woodrooffe, in a notorious radio broadcast)
- 33.BBC comedy show famous for its “going out for an English” sketch
- 34.Of a payment, made with no acceptance of liability
- 35.The opposite of zenith
- 36.Another name for an artist or illustrator
- 37.Largest living lizard species
- 38.Strong tissue connecting bones
- 39.An abbreviated word form such as photo or telly
- 40.State capital of Maine
- 41.Henchman of Auric Goldfinger
- 42.Actress who gained fame as a medium in Blithe Spirit
- 43.Simon and Garfunkel song which starts with boarding a Greyhound bus in Pittsburgh
- 44.Father McKenzie is also named in this Beatles song
- 45.A former insurance clerk who won 1984 Olympic skating gold with a former policeman
- 46.River which forms part of the border between Germany and Poland
- 47.Wordsworth poem popularly known as Daffodils
- 48.Devotional name for Communion bread and wine
- 49.2007 war drama starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, adapted from an Ian McEwan novel
- 50.Punk band featuring guitarist (formerly bassist) Captain Sensible
- 51.Variety of winter-ripening pear
- 52.Connection used to attach a hose to a water main
- 53.100 cents in South Africa
- 54.Phylum of segmented worms
- 55.Truro, Chatham, and Barnstable are on this peninsula
- 56.Company for whose frozen peas advert Patsy Kensit made a popping sound