The Times - Specialist - December 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
1952 film noir with no dialogue, starring Ray Milland	The Thief
1967 single by Petula Clark, written by Charlie Chaplin	This Is My Song
1994 novel by Louis de Bernières	Captain Corelli's Mandolin
A Hindu religious teacher	SWAMI
A hurricane, as described in the title of the best-known novel by Richard Hughes	high wind
A settee, its name from an Arabic word for a raised platform	SOFA
A soldier of a light cavalry regiment	HUSSAR
African republic situated between Ghana and Benin	TOGO
Amusing in a peculiar fashion	DROLL
An ant	EMMET
Archaic word meaning ignorance	inscience
BBC documentary series hosted by Neil Oliver and Nicholas Crane	COAST
Botanical name for a grape or a grapelike berry	UVA
Brand name of four types of Italian vermouth	CINZANO
Brand name used by Vincent Bach, who made trumpets and trombones rather than string instruments	STRADIVARIUS
Broad-winged bird of prey often used in falconry	GOSHAWK
Colombian captain of AS Monaco and all-time top scorer for his national team	Radamel Falcao
Consumer protection body replaced by the Competition and Markets Authority in 2014	Office of Fair Trading
Cosmetic treatment of the feet	PEDICURE
Dehydration by evaporation is used to produce this foodstuff	milk powder
Elvis Costello and the Attractions single which followed Oliver’s Army	Accidents Will Happen
Extinct elephant-like mammal	MASTODON
Franz Kafka novel published posthumously in 1925	The Trial
Genus including most of the tree ferns grown in British gardens	dicksonia
In a relationship	ATTACHED
In sailing, the distance made to windward while tacking	headreach
Jewish term for the Passover festival	PESACH
Long distance footpath which runs from Winchester to Eastbourne	South Downs Way
Musical genre of the 1980s identified by the smiley face symbol	Acid House
Passage through which a fluid enters a machine	INTAKE
Rail service with St Pancras International as its main station in the UK	EUROSTAR
Reason for a yachtswoman to tack	HEADWIND
Series of eight children’s books written by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black	The Spiderwick Chronicles
Setting of the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto	San Andreas
Severe poverty	PENURY
Short story by Daphne du Maurier, later a film starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland	Don't Look Now
Shortened name of the drug commonly called heroin	diamorphine
Slang word for money	MOOLA
Small, long-eared member of the Equus genus	ASS
Songs or poems celebrating a marriage	EPITHALAMIA
Subterranean ____ Blues, a song by Bob Dylan	HOMESICK
Surname of the Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo	CROCKETT
The “sport of kings”	horse racing
The affliction graphospasm, also called scrivener’s palsy	writer's cramp
The belladonna lily	AMARYLLIS
The Downs is a roadstead between ____ and the Goodwin Sands	DEAL
The monetary unit of Paraguay	GUARANI
The muse of astronomy and another name for Aphrodite	URANIA
The original Good King Wenceslas was a duke of ____	BOHEMIA
The President of Sudan	Omar al-Bashir
The ____ agreement of 1985 relaxed a number of European border controls	schengen
This element’s atomic number is 1	HYDROGEN
Tibet’s forbidden city	LHASA
Time after which TV programmes unsuitable for children may be broadcast	WATERSHED
To draw or paint	LIMN
Turnips, to the Scottish	NEEPS
Type of car called a station wagon in the USA	ESTATE
Ukraine city whose previous names include Hughesovka and Stalino	DONETSK
Unwanted fish or other aquatic creatures in a fisherman’s net	BYCATCH
William Herschel used a microscope to show that this marine animal is not a plant	CORAL