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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 07 03
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
Roger Moore’s first James Bond film
Live and Let Die
County in which many Hardy novels are set
DORSET
The little ____ is an aquatic bird also called “dabchick”
GREBE
To verbally intimidate an opponent in cricket
SLEDGE
The only character seen in all of CS Lewis’s Narnia books
ASLAN
A malicious written or verbal attack
HATCHET JOB
State whose capital, Salvador, was Brazil’s first capital city
BAHIA
Possible result of (UK) annual inflation over 9 per cent
pay rise
PERCHANCE
UNINTENTIONALLY
Musical genre popularised by Saturday Night Fever
DISCO
“The main ____ of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history” (Harold Wilson)
ESSENTIALS
The second of David Bowie’s “Berlin Trilogy” albums
HEROES
First sequel to a novel about a red-haired Canadian girl
Anne of Avonlea
An important contest in cycling or horse racing
CLASSIC
Equipment on which engines etc are trialled before production
test bed
A structure protecting plants; informally, a military prison
GLASSHOUSE
World ____ are events showcasing national achievements, held quinquennially since 2000
EXPOS
Central character of Samuel Richardson’s epistolary novel of 1748
Clarissa Harlowe
Poetic repetition of sounds, as used in Poe’s “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”
ASSONANCE
“You’ve had a cream of a ____ dream” (Sweeney Agonistes, TS Eliot)
NIGHTMARE
English actress remembered for her husky voice and double entendres
Fenella Fielding
English spelling of a name for soccer teams in Bucharest, Tirana and Zagreb
DYNAMO
Great Britain or England, in Australian and NZ slang
Old Dart
“He play’d an ancient ditty ____ mute, / In Provence call’d, ‘La belle dame sans merci’” (Keats)
long since
A shrimp, crab or lobster
DECAPOD
A dictator or despot
absolute ruler