Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
14-April-2019 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Buzz Answers
- 1.Discretion is needed on motorway getting taxis!
- 2.To ____ someone's heels is to compete intensely with a slightly superior rival
- 3.In the shape of a letter S or its Greek equivalent
- 4.Constant publicity absorbing state bodies
- 5.At the 1948 Olympics, 25,000 cups of ____ were served to competitors
- 6.Fired up in argument getting dagger
- 7.Calculating the area under a curve in maths
- 8.Weight in India much served up
- 9.A technical name for a pun
- 10.Nausea or runs associated with spidery stuff
- 11.Plectrum used by guitarists
- 12.Cheapskate brought round guide, one to take you for a ride
- 13.1979 legal drama film starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep
- 14.Bath's unpleasant smell? Not a word
- 15.A very cold or reserved manner
- 16.Sailors to meet Italian topless ladies — with any luck!
- 17.The first period of the Mesozoic era, in which dinosaurs first appeared
- 18.Binge drinking in public gets ridicule
- 19.Brothers or sisters, or other relatives
- 20.Spot record sun, nothing less
- 21.Peter the Great, Benjamin Franklin and Oscar Wilde could have been described as ____
- 22.Alexei ____ won all-around gymnastics gold at the Sydney Super Dome in 2000
- 23.A ____ nose may be the result of a fight
- 24.Get into a queue shortly for an antiseptic
- 25.In human beings, an arm
- 26.From agricultural production, a nickname for Tasmania
- 27.Fuss or commotion
- 28.Fungal disease of plants, especially cereals, causing black sooty marks on leaves
- 29.Followed meditation working on cast
- 30.Public disgrace, alas trapping yours truly
- 31.Torn skin near the end of a finger
- 32.In 1975 ____ led the first successful ascent of Everest by a face rather than a ridge
- 33.Idiot, for example that's in Air defence speared and wounded
- 34.A route for award nominees
- 35.Indian board game is one behind chap playing
- 36."‘gh' ____ ‘cough'” begins a creative respelling of "fish” often attributed to George Bernard Shaw
- 37.Deer is active
- 38.Region along the Nile, between Aswan and Khartoum
- 39.Glossing over distant sound
- 40.____ won Oscars for his roles in Mystic River and Milk
- 41.Furious head accepted in religious college
- 42."It's the tobacco that counts” was the slogan for Player's ____
- 43.A symptom used to identify a disease
- 44."Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ____. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash” (Sergei Rachmaninov)
- 45.Relish pop of recent times
- 46.Patriarch lives with one about to get up
- 47.A pink pig floats above ____ on the cover of the Pink Floyd's album Animals
- 48.Mostly hard to get Revolver
- 49.Speaking or writing a language, but not very well
- 50.Lamb made by TV cook needing bit of dill
- 51.A North American name for the 24-hour clock
- 52.Book on English party: discuss at length
- 53.Storage for cigars or other tobacco
- 54.Rock cake inside for head of church
- 55.Press Ctrl+Shift+N to get such a window in Google Chrome
- 56.Catches in practice area
- 57.Bjorn Borg's playing style included heavy ____ on both wings
- 58.To some extent, one thrifty European country
- 59.Joseph ____ built Chatsworth's Emperor Fountain and Conservative Wall (a long greenhouse)
- 60.Surround one arresting cake decoration, not the first one
- 61.In music, "with spirit”
- 62.Computer language named after a 19th-century female mathematician
- 63.The world's oldest rowing race, held annually on the River Thames since 1715
- 64.Note Income support racket from before
- 65.A lack of red blood cells
- 66.A disguised identification, especially for military purposes or in espionage
- 67.The main language spoken in Tashkent
- 68.Tilt
- 69.Voters pick mineral
- 70.Mean guy confronting lad in trouble
- 71.TV comedy set in Royston Vasey
- 72.Tony ____ was England captain until it was known that he had recruited players for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket
- 73.Italian for "witch”, also a brand of herbal liqueur
- 74.Axes partner overlooking English county
- 75.Depressions turbulent in Tunis after vacation
- 76.1A reached many ____
- 77.Hard balls reduced runs
- 78.Cadair Idris and Tryfan are mountains located in ____
- 79.Mean types restricting time for flowers
- 80.An old name for iron sulphate
- 81.Democrat gets welcome up in North American state
- 82.Substance obtained by distilling wood or coal
- 83.COM1 or COM2 on a 20th-century PC-compatible computer
- 84.Kind of skirt oddly twee around posterior