Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
20-October-2019 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Answers 911

  1. 1.Short of backing many in choir impromptu getting out of tune
  2. 2.Small cup used for serving Turkish or espresso coffee
  3. 3.Colloquial term for the traditional postal system
  4. 4.____ Day is a public holiday on the first Monday after January 26
  5. 5.Briefs a nipper lifted up
  6. 6.The ending (in the British Empire) of slavery after William Wilberforce's campaigns
  7. 7.Love kiss on the kisser from an African bird
  8. 8.Musician such as Heinz Holliger
  9. 9.Sound quality not so fierce around bass
  10. 10.____ Cole played Joan Norton in Doc Martin
  11. 11.Students below, look up in group of trees
  12. 12.Charity supporting single-parent families
  13. 13.Playwright whose social dramas include Ghosts and The Wild Duck
  14. 14.Nipper heard ____ in Francis Barraud's famous painting
  15. 15.Nut eating honey and cereal
  16. 16.Composer of the guitar concerto Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre
  17. 17.Endless corruption absorbed by the old American
  18. 18.The brightest star in the constellation Virgo
  19. 19.The traditional venue for the San Marino Grand Prix
  20. 20.Malevolent spirit believed to rob graves and devour corpses
  21. 21.Go around a green for limestone deposit
  22. 22.Payment one accepted for concave moulding
  23. 23.Old name for a large merchant ship
  24. 24.Tatum ____ was the youngest winner of a competitive Academy award, for her role in Paper Moon
  25. 25.Freeman, company boss attached to both sides
  26. 26.What some TT reformers might do for an explanation
  27. 27.Brightly coloured popular aquarium fish, native to the Amazon basin
  28. 28.Female journalist writing articles of sentimental appeal
  29. 29.Late January celebration of Shetland's Norse heritage
  30. 30.A little boy catches fly
  31. 31.Most irritable
  32. 32.The purest and noblest knight of the Round Table
  33. 33.Given a new role take advanced supersonic transport
  34. 34.Recall movement in scores of MacMillan
  35. 35.Incense burners for the home
  36. 36.A wealthy well-travelled socialite
  37. 37.French writer of prophesies in rhymed quatrains
  38. 38.Old head of English in school uttered the call
  39. 39.Lightermen last to encourage shelducks
  40. 40.In skiing, a straight high-speed downhill run
  41. 41.US-born author of verse volumes The Colossus and Ariel
  42. 42.Byzantine emperor responsible for the revision and compilation of Roman imperial law
  43. 43.Sort of ranks remaining
  44. 44.Stella drunk in Rock could get you this
  45. 45.Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the 1978 Booker Prize
  46. 46.Irish dramatist who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield
  47. 47.Materially wrong about potassium measurement in labs
  48. 48.Musicians whose playing is on the slide
  49. 49.Description of an area like 34A rather than the West End
  50. 50.Silent leaving clubs? Only a bit in Glasgow
  51. 51.Small chalk grassland plant with pink flowers
  52. 52.Unfinished search for item in playground up north
  53. 53.New World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
  54. 54.The old take plan without a pinch of salt
  55. 55.Affluent London district with grand terraces of white stucco houses
  56. 56.____ replaced ash as the main body wood for Fender guitars in 1956
  57. 57.Always there!
  58. 58.Insult chaps spoken of in front
  59. 59.Cobblers urge beginning with last
  60. 60.Technology using gas or liquid to operate a control system, rather than electronics
  61. 61.Latin-based name for a group of people summoned to serve on a jury
  62. 62.Restaurant specialising in roasted and barbecued meat
  63. 63.Inconsistent person turned up before Christmas over
  64. 64.Wrought iron case in outline
  65. 65.A round, semisweet biscuit made from wholemeal flour
  66. 66.Sewer-dwelling teenage superheroes whose trainer and adoptive father is a mutant rat called Splinter
  67. 67.Tense journalist fellow union's leader ignored
  68. 68."I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and ____s?” (Stephen Hawking)
  69. 69.Ornamental pot or trough for flowers
  70. 70.Shy about going before audience in dressing room
  71. 71.Stress about infectious diseases? It happens
  72. 72.Adult leader of a pack of Cub Scouts
  73. 73.____Knightley played Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice
  74. 74.Hybrid red fruits whose name shows their Scottish origin
  75. 75.County resident not right to reveal pig iron on board
  76. 76.Fruit from the east without flavour mostly
  77. 77.Common name for Citrus reticulata or its fruit
  78. 78.1965 No 1 hit for Sonny and Cher, taken from their debut studio album
  79. 79.US soprano who died on September 30 — her statement that "pigeonholes are for pigeons” reflected her wide repertoire
  80. 80.Cordial company sharing a seat