The Times - Specialist - October 22 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist Crossword Puzzle Solutions - October 22 2017 

Clues	Answers
'Bearded' member of the carp family	BARBEL
'He who boasts of his ____ is praising the deeds of another' (Seneca)	ANCESTRY
'Where the pools are bright and deep / Where the gray ____ lies asleep' (James Hogg)	TROUT
'Wie schön ist die Prinzessin ____ heute Nacht!' (First line of a Richard Strauss opera)	SALOME
1967-1984 quiz show dominated by 'teachers and their egg-headed offspring' according to the Penguin TV Companion	Ask the Family
1980 US sitcom set during World War II	Goodtime Girls
1991 film whose central characters use Engine 17	BACKDRAFT
1996 survival horror video game whose 2017 version is known as Biohazard	Resident Evil
220 yards	FURLONG
A device using X-rays and a computer to create detailed images of the inside of the body	CAT scanner
A fruit, a sport, and a soft drink	SQUASH
A ____ noble partners a ballerina	DANSEUR
Actress and dancer who played Oola in Return of the Jedi	Femi Taylor
Actress who gained fame as Bond girl Honey Ryder	Ursula Andress
Adjective usually followed by 'wonder'	CHINLESS
American baked dessert of apples and breadcrumbs	Brown Betty
Ancient Mediterranean region whose cities included Tyre and Carthage	PHOENICIA
Beauty parlour offering manicures and/or pedicures	nail bar
Bob ____ was prime minister of Australia, 1983-91	HAWKE
Broth in which meat has been cooked	pot liquor
Capital of Mozambique	MAPUTO
Catchphrase of Lance-Corporal Jack Jones in Dad’s Army	Dont panic
Cavolo ____ is a dark-leaved variety of kale	NERO
Cole Phelps is the lead detective in this video game by Rockstar	L A Noire
Company which introduced the all-electric compact calculator in 1957	CASIO
Daughter of Tantalus, whose children were shot by Apollo	NIOBE
Device which reduces the polluting effect of exhaust gases	catalyser
Fictional woodcutter whose brother is Cassim	Ali Baba
Foul shots in snooker, scoring shots in billiards	in-offs
French IndyCar driver who raced for F1’s Toro Rosso in 2008-2009	sebastien Bourdais

 

Clues	Answers
Gastropod mollusc noted for its brightly coloured body	NUDIBRANCH
Greek island which served as a granary for Constantinople in the Byzantine period	LEMNOS
Heroine of the His Dark Materials trilogy	Lyra Belacqua
Impaired judgement due to uncontrolled anger	red mist
In textiles, the opposite of woof	WARP
Irish golfer who won the Open championship in 2007 and 2008	Padraig Harrington
Last or final (French, masculine gender)	DERNIER
Parodist or copycat	MIMICKER
President Ronald Reagan’s Secret Service codename	RAWHIDE
Repeated performances or races	RERUNS
Resident of Australia’s 'Garden State'	VICTORIAN
School in which the Talmud is taught	YESHIVA
Ship's deck with at least two apostrophes	fo'c'sle
Sister of Elinor in Sense & Sensibility	Marianne Dashwood
Site of a Second Boer War battle in 1900	Spion Kop
Surname of the actor 'waiting' in a 1984 Bananarama single	De Niro
The 'divine wisdom' of Madame Blavatsky	THEOSOPHY
The CEO of Ryanair	Michael O'Leary
The negative terminal of a dry battery	CATHODE
The only athlete to win two Olympic gold medals in the triathlon	Alistair Brownlee
The only planet whose name is derived from a character in Greek mythology	URANUS
The worship of sacred things, or saints	hierolatry
The ____, 1903 Jack London novel about a dog called Buck	Call Of The Wild
Third compartment of a ruminant’s stomach	OMASUM
This French-Canadian pop punk band performed at the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony	Simple Plan
US state whose capital is Baton Rouge	LOUISIANA
Visitors to Cumbria may see this lake from Cat Bells	DERWENTWATER
What went in a hole in an old-style school desk	INKWELL
Zoroastrian holy scriptures	AVESTA
____ Ka-chun, snooker player originally from Hong Kong	Marco Fu