Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
8-October-2017 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Answers 911

  1. 1.Pauley Perrette plays gothic forensic scientist ____ Sciuto in NCIS
  2. 2.To sing while rapidly switching from natural to falsetto
  3. 3.“With maximum effort”, referring to old technology
  4. 4.Capital of Australias Victoria state
  5. 5.Official language of Cambodia
  6. 6.The ____ is based on memoirs of governess Anna Leonowens
  7. 7.Area of central Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea
  8. 8.Main antagonist of Mervyn Peakes Gormenghast trilogy
  9. 9.Terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, some of which slowed the progress of Allied forces in Operation Overlord
  10. 10.Anglicised name for Mongolias capital
  11. 11.In America, any fizzy soft drink
  12. 12.Actress who played Nefer in The Egyptian
  13. 13.Small marsupial made popular in a game, originally for the Sony PlayStation
  14. 14.Gourd fruit with a striped skin
  15. 15.A Roman greeting or a soothing ointment
  16. 16.Silky cloth with raised design
  17. 17.European explorer who discovered New Zealand
  18. 18.A decorative frill around the neck, also a variety of sandpiper
  19. 19.Release eggs
  20. 20.Water-borne sheet detached from an ice field
  21. 21.Cumbrian river which enters the Irish Sea at Workington
  22. 22.1978 John Irving novel, later a film starring Robin Williams
  23. 23.Popular music pianist born Trevor Stanford
  24. 24.Urchin
  25. 25.Conic section with two focal points
  26. 26.And, like the baseless ____ of this vision / The cloud-capped towers … (The Tempest)
  27. 27.Peter Cook and Dudley Moores 1960s TV show
  28. 28.To stop a sailing vessels progress
  29. 29.Clergyman ranked below priest
  30. 30.Owner of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire
  31. 31.This instrument of Austria and Switzerland inspired a theme in the finale of Brahmss first symphony
  32. 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. 33.BBC comedy show famous for its “going out for an English” sketch
  34. 34.Of a payment, made with no acceptance of liability
  35. 35.The opposite of zenith
  36. 36.Another name for an artist or illustrator
  37. 37.Largest living lizard species
  38. 38.Strong tissue connecting bones
  39. 39.An abbreviated word form such as photo or telly
  40. 40.State capital of Maine
  41. 41.Henchman of Auric Goldfinger
  42. 42.Actress who gained fame as a medium in Blithe Spirit
  43. 43.Simon and Garfunkel song which starts with boarding a Greyhound bus in Pittsburgh
  44. 44.Father McKenzie is also named in this Beatles song
  45. 45.A former insurance clerk who won 1984 Olympic skating gold with a former policeman
  46. 46.River which forms part of the border between Germany and Poland
  47. 47.Wordsworth poem popularly known as Daffodils
  48. 48.Devotional name for Communion bread and wine
  49. 49.2007 war drama starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, adapted from an Ian McEwan novel
  50. 50.Punk band featuring guitarist (formerly bassist) Captain Sensible
  51. 51.Variety of winter-ripening pear
  52. 52.Connection used to attach a hose to a water main
  53. 53.100 cents in South Africa
  54. 54.Phylum of segmented worms
  55. 55.Truro, Chatham, and Barnstable are on this peninsula
  56. 56.Company for whose frozen peas advert Patsy Kensit made a popping sound