The Times - Specialist - February 4 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
“They were summoned from the hillside” is the first line of this 1914 song	Keep the Home Fires Burning
1996 Formula One world champion	Damon Hill
A 1985 TV advertising campaign for this Japanese company used a version of the song “’Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?”	TOSHIBA
A langlaufer is a cross-country ____	SKIER
A magazine rifle or pistol, named after a German inventor	MAUSER
A place setting at a restaurant table	COVER
A scrap of food	ORT
A small web-weaving mite, a leaf pest	red spider
A ____ orange is a variety of apple	BLENHEIM
Alban ____ based his first opera on an unfinished play by Georg Büchner, and did not complete his second opera	BERG
Anvil-shaped bone of the middle ear	INCUS
Architect who designed the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme	Edwin Lutyens
Author of Some of Me Poems	Pam Ayres
Blackpool Pleasure Beach roller coaster which opened in 1994	The Big One
Bond girl Plenty ____ featured in Diamonds Are Forever	O'Toole
Cloud type with rounded heaps on a dark horizontal base	CUMULUS
Company whose logo depicts two walking fingers	YELL
Composer whose symphonies include the “Bear” and “Surprise”	HAYDN
Confectionery trademark which is a boy’s name reversed	trebor
Distance between a vehicle’s front and rear axles	WHEELBASE
Driving game series launched on the PlayStation in 1997	Gran Turismo
Fabric from Angora goats	MOHAIR
Game won by taking (or not taking) the last matchstick	NIM
Glands at the root of the neck which become vestigial in adulthood	THYMI
Husband of Muhammad’s daughter Fatima, later the fourth Muslim caliph, assassinated in 661	ALI
In a nervous state	RATTLED
In Greek mythology, a water nymph — one of the 3,000 daughters of Tethys	OCEANID
In Rugby, a foul play in which the ball is hit forwards	knock-on
Island where the Greeks hid their fleet near the end of the Trojan War	TENEDOS
Japanese farewell, which translates as “if it must be so”	SAYONARA
Mammal whose stomach is divided into four compartments	RUMINANT
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are Canada’s ____ Provinces	MARITIME
No 1 UK single for 2 Unlimited in 1993	No Limit
Opera performed most in recent Arena di Verona seasons	AIDA
Outer layer of an embryo, which develops to form skin and nerves	ECTODERM
Patrick Stewart's first film appearance as Captain Jean-Luc Picard was in ____	Star Trek Generations
Period of up to four weeks before Christmas	ADVENT
Playwright who wrote The Rivals	SHERIDAN
Political party whose president is Cyril Ramaphosa	African National Congress
Psychologist and former FBI agent created by James Patterson	Alex Cross
Ring-shaped moulding, as at the top of a column	ANNULET
Roman emperor ____ Valerius Aurelius Constantinus is also known as Constantine the Great	flavius
Sacred choral composition	MOTET
Shout of approval	CHEER
Status Quo’s first hit single was inspired by this artist	L S Lowry
Strong masculine pride	MACHISMO
Swiss tennis player who won the 2016 US Open	Stan Wawrinka
Swollen lymph node in the armpit or groin	BUBO
The first American woman in space (in 1983)	Sally Ride
The only one of the “seven wonders” whose existence has never been proved	Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The process of feeding data into a computer	INPUT
The royal family usually attends the ____ Gathering on the first Saturday in September	BRAEMAR
The three Major League Baseball teams named after birds include the Baltimore ____	ORIOLES
The tremolo arm of a guitar is also called a ____ bar	WHAMMY
The world’s only alpine parrot, found in New Zealand	KEA
The ____ Railway is a heritage line running from Whitby to Pickering	North Yorkshire Moors
The ____, 1967 film with Jason Robards as Al Capone	St Valentine's Day Massacre
Theatrical comedy by Moliere, set in the house of Orgon	TARTUFFE
Usually hooded wicker basket, used as an infant’s bed	BASSINET
____ is credited with the invention of the postage stamp	Rowland Hil