Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
9-August-2020 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Answers 911
- 1.Long set on oily stuff used in medicines
- 2.Leaves home for a holiday
- 3.The UK's next ____ day is Sunday March 21, 2021
- 4.Spirit shown by Welshman second to none initially
- 5.Name given to Joseph Priestley's "dephlogisticated air” by Lavoisier, who first recognised it as an element, in 1777
- 6.Does for clubs sharing meals
- 7.Cube of three
- 8.The usual English name for a team which has always played in the top division of Soviet or Ukrainian football
- 9.Bob and Hal recalled reciprocal units
- 10.Container holding about five gallons, originally used for storing fuel
- 11.Moderate administrative trainee's fit
- 12.The French term for a grocer
- 13.Old druggists accepted endless fuss associated with tooth decay
- 14.New name for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, from 1929
- 15.Welsh reformer who established a cooperative industrial community at New Lanark
- 16.Ghostly procession showing eager desire but failing to start
- 17.To charge a US public official with offences committed in office
- 18.Old Italian with very large buttocks
- 19.The ____ was the first of Chekhov's four major plays
- 20.Jack in house mostly, a lower one
- 21.Will's faith on show
- 22.Enquire about someone, often in regard to their health
- 23.Deep-sea fishing port in Mount's Bay, Cornwall
- 24.Regret endlessly boosted electrical unit
- 25.TV quiz hosted by Hughie Green from 1955 to 1968
- 26.Amazement with heartless JFK shooting before ultimately utter distress in Dallas
- 27.HMS Tyne and HMS Mersey monitored a Russian attack submarine as it passed through this body of water in July
- 28.Sounds like a smart person cracks awkward task amateur ignored
- 29.Part of the body of a saint venerated as holy
- 30.Someone keen to keep up with the latest clothing trends
- 31.Board game played in Europe since Roman times
- 32.Exclusive about rector making harsh noise
- 33.Pinnacle of precipitated calcite on the floor of a cave
- 34.New dancing routine that comes without a charge
- 35.Victor's successor!
- 36.From 2014, the name of a UK-published reference book, now in its 152nd edition
- 37.Patrick ____ starred as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing
- 38.Guide perhaps not party's leader abroad
- 39.Largest island of Thailand
- 40.Trying person in lower tier heads off
- 41.Type of moustache worn by Wyatt Earp, Paul von Hindenburg and Jimmy Edwards
- 42.Godfrey ____ was "arguably the best wicket keeper the game has ever seen” according to Wisden
- 43.Native southwestern US inhabitants, c 200BC-AD1500
- 44.Act as lookout in stronghold chamber underground
- 45.Relaxed and satisfied having given up place
- 46.Members of the Vatican City's de facto army
- 47.____ played Michelle Fowler in EastEnders before becoming a TV producer and director
- 48.African's money lost in a sweep
- 49.In colloquial expressions, an alternative to "bad way”
- 50.Leaders in part of string section missing gut
- 51."Come in!” across the 30A
- 52.Large number you once found on beach
- 53.3D puzzle with 6 colours and 26 visible blocks, a 1980s craze
- 54.Gas mixture, mainly of methane, found in coal mines
- 55.Old-fashioned sounding instruments
- 56.Ignominious failure
- 57.Politician's dry externally always
- 58.How "pretty maids” were arranged in Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- 59.Do without missing van for dock
- 60.Firm approval after King dropped
- 61.Song from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 62.Rhineland city — its cathedral is the world's largest surviving Romanesque church
- 63.Opener for England gets outside of mark for wide
- 64.Roman officer appearing before wives returned
- 65.Civil parish on the west side of the Lizard peninsula, with a cove including a fishing harbour
- 66.Broad cravat tied under the chin; a make of gas water heater popular from the 1930s to the 1950s
- 67.Stars of the 1930s films Animal Crackers and Duck Soup
- 68.Ghanaian people from a ramshackle hut spoken of
- 69.Village with Spain's oldest bullring, often visited by tourists staying in Costa del Sol resorts
- 70.Stick with combine for field in the Caribbean
- 71.The art of growing ornamental dwarf trees in pots
- 72.Part of muscle remarkably showing hardening of tissues
- 73.JRR Tolkien's "hole-builder”
- 74.The longest surname of any tennis player with a career grand slam in singles
- 75.Increasing in strength
- 76.Rather silly how the Queen is represented
- 77.By crossing it with an acorn, our Gracie's brother Joe created the biggest ____ in the world
- 78.Energy change accommodating English and Scottish poll
- 79.Glass vessel containing liquid for injections
- 80.Russian Marxist killed in Mexico City by Ramon Mercader
- 81.The Dutch name for café ____ means "incorrect coffee”
- 82.Chasing odd character seen around island railway