Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
6-May-2018 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Answers 911

  1. 1.Harry Potter headmistress played by Maggie Smith
  2. 2.Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
  3. 3.____ drinks are used to replace minerals and salt lost by sweating
  4. 4.Group of people serving a (usually) important person
  5. 5.Archaic term for an unspecified day in the near future
  6. 6.When describing cloud cover, one eighth of the sky
  7. 7.German equivalent of that is
  8. 8.Applied retrospectively (of a law)
  9. 9.Republic bordered by Libya, Niger, and Sudan
  10. 10.Type of neckwear named after Slavic mercenaries of the 17th century
  11. 11.Foot-operated lever
  12. 12.An amphibian of the Anura order
  13. 13.One of two second-row players in a rugby union scrum
  14. 14.The original family name of Darth Vader
  15. 15.Enchantress of Greek myth who turned sailors into swine
  16. 16.Adam ____, host of The Last Leg
  17. 17.Joseph Kesselring black comedy play about the Brewster family
  18. 18.Spanish town just across the border from Gibraltar
  19. 19.Country of northwest Africa, its capital Nouakchott
  20. 20.A young herring
  21. 21.Informally, a black eye
  22. 22.Soren ____ is considered a founder of existentialism
  23. 23.Cocktail made with vodka and orange juice
  24. 24.A title of Riccardo in Verdis opera A Masked Ball
  25. 25.Ice skating jump from one foot to the other, including a half turn
  26. 26.Canine friend of Blue Peter presenter John Noakes
  27. 27.The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to ____ us (The Tragedy of King Lear)
  28. 28.Home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club
  29. 29.Author of The Moonstone
  30. 30.Hapless fictional character played by Simon Jones, Chris Langham, and Martin Freeman
  31. 31.Area of dead tissue caused by loss of blood supply
  32. 32.Wine of the Loire Valley, usually white
  33. 33.Greek mathematician considered the father of geometry
  34. 34.Severe inability to do simple arithmetic, caused by cerebral impairment
  35. 35.Arabian kingdom thought to be modern day Yemen
  36. 36.Unintended, accidental
  37. 37.Forward part of a ship
  38. 38.An orange roan is a type of ____
  39. 39.Political style introduced under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
  40. 40.The worlds first female president of a republic
  41. 41.Familiar alternative name for a German shepherd dog
  42. 42.African country whose capital is Accra
  43. 43.Monterrey is the capital of this Mexican state
  44. 44.The class of tapeworms
  45. 45.Cricketers like Alan Knott, Tariq Iqbal, and Thomas Box
  46. 46.Actress who gained fame as the sitcom character Barbara Good
  47. 47.Irelands Rockabill Island has the largest European colony of ____ terns
  48. 48.South African dish of curried mince and various other ingredients
  49. 49.Coined in 1975, term for a wealthy Chelsea resident
  50. 50.A two-masted boat and an abbreviation of an army rank
  51. 51.In zoology, to use arms for locomotion
  52. 52.Situation last declared in the UK by Edward Heaths government
  53. 53.Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc
  54. 54.1963 film starring Shelley Winters, based on a Jean Genet play
  55. 55.Hordeolum, a swelling of the eyelid
  56. 56.Bob Seger single, from the album Beautiful Loser, a less common spelling of its subject