Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
3-March-2019 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Buzz Answers
- 1.English Literature: Scriptwriter who created the Daleks
- 2.Murphy holds very colourful skin marker
- 3.Author of the 1947 novel Under the Volcano
- 4.Australian informal expression for 'unimpressive' — a British equivalent with one letter inserted
- 5.Opening line forgotten, almost disastrously
- 6.The Bible: In St Paul's writing, a charismatic preacher
- 7.Soldier eats a blue biscuit
- 8.A ____ is intended to keep rain out of a tent
- 9.Labour party leader between Lansbury and Gaitskell
- 10.Children's Literature: Series created by Dr Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham
- 11.Prohibition covering liquor and one's backing revolution
- 12.Highlight of music hall performances by Wilson, Keppel and Betty
- 13.Did stuff on Emirates put over in pale-green colour
- 14.Clothing design technique popularised in the late 1960s
- 15.Possible part of the process of solving a crossword clue
- 16.One mocks Stokes put in difficulty
- 17.No speech impediment Earl picked up from Greek character
- 18.Poet like Pindar or Horace
- 19.Italics in clues indicate one of the seven ____ books owned by today's setter, as a source of the Q and A
- 20.One who gives up easily
- 21.Spotted swine without heads and hound without owner
- 22.Charlie on brass is soft
- 23.Female badgers
- 24.The lingua franca of the Hanseatic League
- 25.Gurnard in cans, Australian not English
- 26.____ played male and female school heads in 1950s British comedy films
- 27.Ancient alphabet of the British Isles, now only visible on stone monuments
- 28.Pressure-relieving pad rejected? Bin it!
- 29.Informally, an athlete like Emil Zatopek or Mo Farah
- 30.Music: Paired percussion instrument created in Cuba, around 1900
- 31.Bury up north picked up — Hearts knocked out
- 32.Enthusiasm's shown up with no little energy in scraps
- 33.The English Language: George Bernard Shaw said there were touches of the philologist and phonetician Henry ____ in Pygmalion
- 34.Troops caught by night in preparation as before
- 35.In Greek myth, Apollo's twin sister
- 36.Showjumper Richard ____ won three Olympic gold medals
- 37.Certainly boring church conference, say — it reduces one to silence
- 38.Irritate transvestite turning around in colourful stripes
- 39.Full, especially with food
- 40.Amateur move on and off the straight at Gleneagles
- 41.In Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates's ____
- 42.In 2008, Paul ____ became the first black British manager in England's top football division
- 43.Changes brought about 100 enlarged vessels
- 44.Ruling family in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy
- 45.2007 Disney film combining live action filming, traditional animation and CGI
- 46.Berks doctor removed braces
- 47.____ Elkins was the eponymous character in a 1960s film
- 48.Absolute tenacity while ascending outside run in ice ridge
- 49.Food: Writer given most credit for leading British tastes in a new direction, from the 1950s onwards
- 50.A Great Highland ____ usually has three drones
- 51.Sign that an exchange is ready to initiate a phone call
- 52.Fine arresting extremes of opulent love poem
- 53.This pass was the scene of a battle between Persians and outnumbered Greeks
- 54.Gardens conveyed in painting first class
- 55.William Ralph ____, Dean of St Paul's cathedral, was nominated three times for the Nobel prize for literature
- 56.Large shopping centre just off the M25 near Dartford
- 57.With openings say, around one, ring first
- 58.Fellow safe till down under
- 59.Behaving arrogantly or condescendingly
- 60.Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is mostly set in ____
- 61.Items offered on Gumtree are often '____
- 62.No little following for gala occurring in Washington summer?
- 63.Wild reveller, alternatively huge person getting a change of direction
- 64.I could ____ a Mandrake Restorative Draught in my sleep' (Lockhart, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
- 65.____ particles include neutrinos and bosons
- 66.Avenue where the Tour de France has finished since 1975
- 67.Miss Right, very small
- 68.Description concealing rent out of date
- 69.The answer to this is carefully' (Delia Smith on How to ____)
- 70.Alloy of lead, tin and antimony, developed by Gutenberg
- 71.Short service before mass presages rejoicing
- 72.Moslem ruler is male, always
- 73.____ at End House is the sixth Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot
- 74.Endless cod for each individual and my charges are small
- 75.Classical Literature: In Terence's play The ____, the title character is a present from Phaedria to Thais
- 76.Foodstuff also known as hardtack
- 77.Shock with bag — one should keep locks in order
- 78.Lost? Take a satnav regularly when going north
- 79.Drug called diamorphine when prescribed for pain relief
- 80.Leaving railway, deliberate about getting drunk
- 81.Alloy, usually not including the second metal in its name
- 82.The beautiful witch in the 1964-72 TV sitcom Bewitched
- 83.One square metre area adopted by resort
- 84.Marine arthropod often seen in fossil form
- 85.Weight redistribution device used in winter walks
- 86.Rachel disturbed about case of poorest in capital