The Times - Specialist - January 7 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
“When it is ____, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red” (St Matthew)	EVENING
1967 film about partners in crime	Bonnie And Clyde
(Latin) What good would that do me?	cui bono
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible	PROOFREADER
A person who talks when you wish him to listen	BORE
A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness	CONVENT
A shackle for the free	HABIT
A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus	TREE
A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her	BRIDE
Belonging to me if I can hold it or seize it	MINE
Desire and expectation rolled into one	HOPE
The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue	AUCTIONEER
The patriotic art of lying for one’s country	DIPLOMACY
To dine	OVEREAT
To lie about another. To tell the truth about another	DEFAME
Unable to leave	RESIDENT
A blackwater tributary joining the Amazon at Manaus	Rio Negro
A cake and (in translation) a viceroy of India were named after this German town	BATTENBERG
A child aged about 12	TWEENER
A communications innovation first used in the UK in Norwich (1959) and Croydon	postal code
A wide-mouthed pitcher	EWER
About four months pregnant	MIDTERM
Area of land with multiple buildings built for the same purpose	ESTATE
Bad handwriting or spelling, as any fule kno	cacography
Captured by means of force	STORMED
Clues in italics are from this 1911 book by American satirist Ambrose Bierce	the Devil's Dictionary
Cooker component in black, white and red	ceramic hob
Cream cheese used in making tiramisu	MASCARPONE
Device for retarding a vehicle’s motion	drag chain
Distance(s) most often used in connection with golf and American football	YARDAGE
Drawing attention to something to gain advantage	making play of
Edson Arantes do Nascimento	PELE
Extravagant	OTT
Girl from the ____ is a Bob Dylan song influenced by Scarborough Fair	North Country
Google ____ is a video chat mobile app	DUO
Howard ____ was the first person to referee the Champions League and World Cup finals in the same year	WEBB
Informally in the US, to discuss in detail or at length	hash over
James ____ was primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 to 1915	MURRAY
Jeanne Moreau and Paulette Goddard have played Célestine in film versions of this 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau	Diary Of A Chambermaid
Livid	flying off the handle
Long-haired toy dog breed	shih-tzu
Phenomenon discovered in 1827 by observation of pollen grains in water	Brownian motion
Relating to claimed events without scientific explanation	PARANORMAL
Robert Peel’s Tamworth ____ of 1834 promised a review of civil and ecclesiastical institutions	MANIFESTO
Something serial used by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, but not Satie, Scarlatti and Sibelius	chronological order
Something used to enhance the fit or comfort of a shoe	inner sole
Sunday Times journalist with strong views	rod Liddle
The “____ shark” is a roof sculpture in an Oxford suburb	headington
The 51D flows through ____ just before it reaches the sea	PISA
The river Lucy Honeychurch wanted to see from her room at the Pension Bertolini	ARNO
The skill of Bradman and Hutton	BATSMANSHIP
The summit of Mount ____ is the highest point in the Malay archipelago	kinabalu
To be 5D, in informal American usage	hang one's hat up
To represent (someone)	act for
To ____ the wash is to be revealed at last or turn out well	come out in
Today, in Germany	sonntag
Unbleached linen or its colour	ECRU
With affection for the past	NOSTALGIC
____ was a 2001-4 Radio 4 sitcom about a hormonal wife	the Change
____’s picture of the wedding at Cana is the largest painting on canvas in the Louvre	Paolo Veronese