The Times - Specialist - November 26 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist Crossword Puzzle Solutions - November 26 2017 

Clues	Answers
“… if we desire to secure peace, […] it must be known that we are ____ ready for war” (George Washington)	at all times
“And over the ____s […] that were in the low plain was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash” (1 Chronicles 27:28)	olive tree
“For the love of ____” is the correct version of a common quotation from the First Epistle to Timothy	money is the root of all evil
1929 murder of seven members of a Chicago gang	St Valentine's Day Massacre
1949 film with nine roles played by Alec Guinness	Kind Hearts And Coronets
1986 BBC TV series (later a book) in which Beryl Bainbridge looked at the lives of families in a divided nation	Forever England
A drinking vessel often used as a sporting trophy	loving cup
A figure of early Christianity, sometimes identified as the son of Alphaeus	James the Less
A line on a map joining places of equal temperature	ISOTHERM
A mineral like limestone, and a Triumph car of the 1970s	DOLOMITE
A pair of one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both set in the same Bournemouth hotel	Separate Tables
A semisolid lump	DOLLOP
A simple six-holed woodwind instrument	penny whistle
According to the King James Bible, the patriarch ____ did not die but was “translated”	ENOCH
Beatles song by John Lennon, about his mother	JULIA
Britain’s longest ____ crosses the Humber	suspension bridge
British city with a real rather than fictional Albert Square	MANCHESTER
British surgeon who pioneered the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic	Joseph Lister
Chief Inspector Roderick ____ appears in all the detective novels of Ngaio Marsh	ALLEYN
Country house and deer park near Sevenoaks	Knole
Czech Republic’s second-largest city, and Moravia’s largest	BRNO
Detective fiction author who wrote The History of Spiritualism in 1926	Arthur Conan Doyle
Event such as Red Nose Day or Children in Need	TELETHON
Garden plant introduced to Europe from China in the early 19th century	tea rose
Having an intestine separate from the body’s outer wall	enterate
Having, or seeming to have, windows or similar features	fenestrate
In East Anglia, strong beer; more generally, a drink containing beaten egg	NOG
Incentives to join companies	golden hellos
Legume used to make tofu and tempeh	soya bean
London’s Parliament Hill is a popular location for ____	kite-flying
Make an optimistic (or possibly pessimistic) guess	OVERESTIMATE
Mollie ____ played Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?	Sugden
Nation where 1,000 baizas make a rial	OMAN
Norman and Sir are the main characters in this Ronald Harwood play	The Dresser
One who denies or opposes	NAYSAYER
Partial australopithecine skeleton, found in Ethiopia in 1974	LUCY
Person born in a period of up to 18 years starting in 1946	baby boomer
Rosa ____ is possibly the most famous bus passenger in history	PARKS
Since 2013, nationality of Tina Turner	SWISS
Skimble-scamble, all of a ramble	INCOHERENT
Someone who knowingly helps someone who has committed an arrestable offence	accessory after the fact
Spanish director Pedro ____’s first film to gain international attention was Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	ALMODOVAR
Star Wars character who is 900 years old when he dies	YODA
The “three baskets” of Buddhist scripture	tripitaka
The poet Federico Garcia ____ was killed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War	LORCA
The second to speak of two characters in Through the Looking Glass, often depicted as 24	TWEEDLEDEE
The state song of Connecticut	Yankee Doodle
The venue for Crufts dog show since 1991	NEC
To speak proudly about	boast of
Two people are ____ when directly facing each other to fight or argue	toe-to-toe
US state with “Famous Potatoes” on its licence plates	IDAHO
Very small and greatly reduced copy of text or an image	MICRODOT
Where livestock are kept while being fattened for market	FEEDLOT
Worldwide discussion group set up in 1980, with groups including rec.puzzles.crosswords and alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die	USENET
____ may be monozygotic or dizygotic	TWINS
____ Reader is free software used for displaying PDF files	ACROBAT