Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
9-February-2020 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Buzz Answers

  1. 1.Former Arsenal midfielder who joined Liverpool in August 2017
  2. 2.In rococo manner stage dispensed with nothing — vainly
  3. 3.Portable free-reed organs
  4. 4.Disheartening rattle?
  5. 5.A firearm so named for the process of adding a spiral groove in the barrel
  6. 6.Rub out mobster as enemy to some extent
  7. 7.Facetiously, a feigned display of environmental concern
  8. 8.Wife facetiously sticks together herald's decorations
  9. 9.Max ____ was Kafka's literary executor who disobeyed his instruction to burn his unpublished works
  10. 10.Simon Pegg's co-star in such films as Hot Fuzz and Paul
  11. 11.Pretentious wartime cafe-owner returned cross
  12. 12.Sport introduced to the Olympic Games in 1988
  13. 13.Brilliant and outstanding take for graffiti artist, some say
  14. 14.Former province of South Africa, now combined with KwaZulu
  15. 15.Hilarious chap back to front Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, say
  16. 16.A period of (typically) US medical training
  17. 17.Frequently born into fattening way of doing eggs
  18. 18.Remarkable people or things
  19. 19.Warm spiritual leader welcoming day for female
  20. 20.____'s lines in Do They Know It's Christmas began "But say a prayer”
  21. 21.A nickname of Arizona
  22. 22.Blunt's black book or similar
  23. 23.Carve up advantage gaining century
  24. 24.Misuse of therapy believed to be hypothetical, but banned in sport by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2003
  25. 25.Audacious impertinence is unknown in Scots market
  26. 26.The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours is also called Divine ____
  27. 27.Theatres of ancient Greece and Rome
  28. 28.The 200th UK No 1 single, in 1965
  29. 29.From within aged black jar Hadrian dished these out
  30. 30.Organ stop representing the characteristic organ sound
  31. 31.In debauched way devour leg in binge
  32. 32.British artist, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis
  33. 33.Actress who won an Oscar for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator
  34. 34.Pigment of various colours from yellow to brown
  35. 35.Slight American following prom
  36. 36.Such a telling blow? SOS could be desperate last resort
  37. 37.____ is worth £200 on the usual British Monopoly board
  38. 38.Marsupial, roughly the size of a rabbit
  39. 39.____ Tanaka is a Bond ally in You Only Live Twice
  40. 40.Like the finger which either is or isn't bit
  41. 41.Slight forward convergence in car wheels to improve steering and equalize tyre wear
  42. 42.Cheese carnival where son goes for it
  43. 43."People definitely did that in ____ when I was growing up” (Alan Davies on QI, on Romans vomiting to carry on eating)
  44. 44.Johnson, say, burying old cabinet gives immunity?
  45. 45.1980s sitcom starring Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton
  46. 46.Sun and Earth circling depresses, as Menenius Agrippa had it
  47. 47.Grammatical feature of Latin and German
  48. 48.____ plains are created by long-term deposition of sediment by rivers
  49. 49.Oatmeal bread roll left out
  50. 50.The sequel to Saturday Night Fever
  51. 51.Infernal place — company dance
  52. 52.Infusion made with immature or minimally processed leaves
  53. 53.France's trouveur is full of this
  54. 54.Comedians for whom Raleigh made a three-man tandem
  55. 55.SI unit of electromotive force
  56. 56.Around Kinross each kind being close to accepted
  57. 57.To date, the only female Prime Minister of France
  58. 58.With green light refused and exhausted, cornered as before
  59. 59.____ of Scotland is a clothing company, whose website claims that it coined the term "knitwear”
  60. 60.Colin Dexter, eg, often played this European in little disguise
  61. 61.One who specialises in the classification of diseases
  62. 62.Emotion with no notion — perplexed as one is
  63. 63.Form of off-road racing which evolved from trials riding
  64. 64.Enthusiastic about favourite secret of Italians
  65. 65.UK game show based on the final stage of the Netherlands show Miljoenenjacht
  66. 66.Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001
  67. 67.Discern dithering in one acting dogged by drudgery?
  68. 68.Baleful master going to agree
  69. 69.A witticism
  70. 70.A term for fall in local amount of herring causing despondency
  71. 71."These ____s are the principal agents of disembodied but never visible spirits” (Madame Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled, 1877)
  72. 72.One authorised to remove property until a debt is paid
  73. 73.Only one prime number is ____
  74. 74.Chopper caught by one to quit
  75. 75.Fish of the order Anguilliformes
  76. 76.Bother about squeezing in end of tour? It was spent in Malta
  77. 77.Resort formerly promoted as the "suntrap of the south”
  78. 78.The ____ are sea stacks at the west end of the Isle of Wight
  79. 79.What Anthony Burgess called "the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers [. . .] demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight”
  80. 80.Old ranch transferred insecticide
  81. 81.Thus little dictionary finally expressed "like bicarb, eg”
  82. 82.To work too hard
  83. 83.Practically essential part of a sentence
  84. 84.Dissertation about Greek eccentricity to go off at a tangent