Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
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- 1.Harry Potter headmistress played by Maggie Smith
- 2.Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
- 3.____ drinks are used to replace minerals and salt lost by sweating
- 4.Group of people serving a (usually) important person
- 5.Archaic term for an unspecified day in the near future
- 6.When describing cloud cover, one eighth of the sky
- 7.German equivalent of that is
- 8.Applied retrospectively (of a law)
- 9.Republic bordered by Libya, Niger, and Sudan
- 10.Type of neckwear named after Slavic mercenaries of the 17th century
- 11.Foot-operated lever
- 12.An amphibian of the Anura order
- 13.One of two second-row players in a rugby union scrum
- 14.The original family name of Darth Vader
- 15.Enchantress of Greek myth who turned sailors into swine
- 16.Adam ____, host of The Last Leg
- 17.Joseph Kesselring black comedy play about the Brewster family
- 18.Spanish town just across the border from Gibraltar
- 19.Country of northwest Africa, its capital Nouakchott
- 20.A young herring
- 21.Informally, a black eye
- 22.Soren ____ is considered a founder of existentialism
- 23.Cocktail made with vodka and orange juice
- 24.A title of Riccardo in Verdis opera A Masked Ball
- 25.Ice skating jump from one foot to the other, including a half turn
- 26.Canine friend of Blue Peter presenter John Noakes
- 27.The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to ____ us (The Tragedy of King Lear)
- 28.Home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club
- 29.Author of The Moonstone
- 30.Hapless fictional character played by Simon Jones, Chris Langham, and Martin Freeman
- 31.Area of dead tissue caused by loss of blood supply
- 32.Wine of the Loire Valley, usually white
- 33.Greek mathematician considered the father of geometry
- 34.Severe inability to do simple arithmetic, caused by cerebral impairment
- 35.Arabian kingdom thought to be modern day Yemen
- 36.Unintended, accidental
- 37.Forward part of a ship
- 38.An orange roan is a type of ____
- 39.Political style introduced under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
- 40.The worlds first female president of a republic
- 41.Familiar alternative name for a German shepherd dog
- 42.African country whose capital is Accra
- 43.Monterrey is the capital of this Mexican state
- 44.The class of tapeworms
- 45.Cricketers like Alan Knott, Tariq Iqbal, and Thomas Box
- 46.Actress who gained fame as the sitcom character Barbara Good
- 47.Irelands Rockabill Island has the largest European colony of ____ terns
- 48.South African dish of curried mince and various other ingredients
- 49.Coined in 1975, term for a wealthy Chelsea resident
- 50.A two-masted boat and an abbreviation of an army rank
- 51.In zoology, to use arms for locomotion
- 52.Situation last declared in the UK by Edward Heaths government
- 53.Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc
- 54.1963 film starring Shelley Winters, based on a Jean Genet play
- 55.Hordeolum, a swelling of the eyelid
- 56.Bob Seger single, from the album Beautiful Loser, a less common spelling of its subject