Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
9-February-2020 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Buzz Answers
- 1.Former Arsenal midfielder who joined Liverpool in August 2017
- 2.In rococo manner stage dispensed with nothing — vainly
- 3.Portable free-reed organs
- 4.Disheartening rattle?
- 5.A firearm so named for the process of adding a spiral groove in the barrel
- 6.Rub out mobster as enemy to some extent
- 7.Facetiously, a feigned display of environmental concern
- 8.Wife facetiously sticks together herald's decorations
- 9.Max ____ was Kafka's literary executor who disobeyed his instruction to burn his unpublished works
- 10.Simon Pegg's co-star in such films as Hot Fuzz and Paul
- 11.Pretentious wartime cafe-owner returned cross
- 12.Sport introduced to the Olympic Games in 1988
- 13.Brilliant and outstanding take for graffiti artist, some say
- 14.Former province of South Africa, now combined with KwaZulu
- 15.Hilarious chap back to front Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, say
- 16.A period of (typically) US medical training
- 17.Frequently born into fattening way of doing eggs
- 18.Remarkable people or things
- 19.Warm spiritual leader welcoming day for female
- 20.____'s lines in Do They Know It's Christmas began "But say a prayer”
- 21.A nickname of Arizona
- 22.Blunt's black book or similar
- 23.Carve up advantage gaining century
- 24.Misuse of therapy believed to be hypothetical, but banned in sport by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2003
- 25.Audacious impertinence is unknown in Scots market
- 26.The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours is also called Divine ____
- 27.Theatres of ancient Greece and Rome
- 28.The 200th UK No 1 single, in 1965
- 29.From within aged black jar Hadrian dished these out
- 30.Organ stop representing the characteristic organ sound
- 31.In debauched way devour leg in binge
- 32.British artist, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis
- 33.Actress who won an Oscar for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator
- 34.Pigment of various colours from yellow to brown
- 35.Slight American following prom
- 36.Such a telling blow? SOS could be desperate last resort
- 37.____ is worth £200 on the usual British Monopoly board
- 38.Marsupial, roughly the size of a rabbit
- 39.____ Tanaka is a Bond ally in You Only Live Twice
- 40.Like the finger which either is or isn't bit
- 41.Slight forward convergence in car wheels to improve steering and equalize tyre wear
- 42.Cheese carnival where son goes for it
- 43."People definitely did that in ____ when I was growing up” (Alan Davies on QI, on Romans vomiting to carry on eating)
- 44.Johnson, say, burying old cabinet gives immunity?
- 45.1980s sitcom starring Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton
- 46.Sun and Earth circling depresses, as Menenius Agrippa had it
- 47.Grammatical feature of Latin and German
- 48.____ plains are created by long-term deposition of sediment by rivers
- 49.Oatmeal bread roll left out
- 50.The sequel to Saturday Night Fever
- 51.Infernal place — company dance
- 52.Infusion made with immature or minimally processed leaves
- 53.France's trouveur is full of this
- 54.Comedians for whom Raleigh made a three-man tandem
- 55.SI unit of electromotive force
- 56.Around Kinross each kind being close to accepted
- 57.To date, the only female Prime Minister of France
- 58.With green light refused and exhausted, cornered as before
- 59.____ of Scotland is a clothing company, whose website claims that it coined the term "knitwear”
- 60.Colin Dexter, eg, often played this European in little disguise
- 61.One who specialises in the classification of diseases
- 62.Emotion with no notion — perplexed as one is
- 63.Form of off-road racing which evolved from trials riding
- 64.Enthusiastic about favourite secret of Italians
- 65.UK game show based on the final stage of the Netherlands show Miljoenenjacht
- 66.Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001
- 67.Discern dithering in one acting dogged by drudgery?
- 68.Baleful master going to agree
- 69.A witticism
- 70.A term for fall in local amount of herring causing despondency
- 71."These ____s are the principal agents of disembodied but never visible spirits” (Madame Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled, 1877)
- 72.One authorised to remove property until a debt is paid
- 73.Only one prime number is ____
- 74.Chopper caught by one to quit
- 75.Fish of the order Anguilliformes
- 76.Bother about squeezing in end of tour? It was spent in Malta
- 77.Resort formerly promoted as the "suntrap of the south”
- 78.The ____ are sea stacks at the west end of the Isle of Wight
- 79.What Anthony Burgess called "the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers [. . .] demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight”
- 80.Old ranch transferred insecticide
- 81.Thus little dictionary finally expressed "like bicarb, eg”
- 82.To work too hard
- 83.Practically essential part of a sentence
- 84.Dissertation about Greek eccentricity to go off at a tangent