The Times - Specialist - July 19 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

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Clues Answers

“Kensington ____” is an informal term for stage blood GORE

“Our nada ____ in nada, nada be thy name” (Ernest Hemingway) who art

“That was The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, ____ for radio by putting it onto a piece of wood and banging a few nails through it” (Gumby Theatre, Monty Python) ADAPTED

1966 film in which a miniaturised submarine is injected into a scientist’s body to remove a blood clot fantastic Voyage

&23A: “The biggest word you ever heard and this is how it goes: Oh, ____” (Mary Poppins — 1964 film) supercalifragilistic

A dazed state STUPOR

A long thin cigar PANATELLA

A rule issued by a US president, having the force of law executive order

A spendthrift WASTREL

Accommodation for animals at docks or markets LAIRAGE

Accommodation such as the Queen Mary in Long Beach BOATEL

Beef cut containing parts of shoulder bones chuck steak

By population, Australia’s fifth-largest city ADELAIDE

Cancel out or invalidate NULLIFY

Capital city of North Carolina RALEIGH

Captain Frederick ____ wrote Mr Midshipman Easy MARRYAT

Change from first to second gear, for instance UPSHIFT

Constellation including the stars Rigel and Betelgeuse ORION

Fashion designer best known for tennis dresses teddy Tinling

Fictional work mainly about personality rather than plot character study

Flowering soon in bud

Forename of women’s suffrage campaigner Mrs Pankhurst EMMELINE

Foretell the future with a crystal ball or similar object SCRY

Former Pravda editor Nikolai ____ was executed in 1938, after a show trial bukharin

French cigarette brand with a gypsy dancer on the packets GITANES

Grade I listed structure on the eastern approach to Bristol Temple Meads station Avon bridge

In the 19th century, most of the world’s supply of this element came from Sicily SULPHUR

International agreement protecting endangered plants and animals, opened for signature in 1973 CITES

Johnny ____ of Fulham was Britain’s first footballer to earn £100 a week, after the 1961 abolition of the £20 maximum wage HAYNES

Luther ____ played for Watford FC and AC Milan BLISSETT

Mathematical education equipment in which 1 is represented by a white cube cuisenaire rods

Norwegian Wood was the first pop song to use this instrument SITAR

Of a ship, to almost stop while facing the wind lie to

Plant cultivation using mineral nutrients in water HYDROPONICS

Pudding often involving dunked strawberries Chocolate fondue

See 1A expialidocious

Siberian city where Decembrists were exiled IRKUTSK

So far as yet

Someone using a noosed rope to catch horses or cattle LASSOER

Structure abutting the walls of a larger building lean-to

The best-known song from the musical No, No, Nanette Tea for Two

The Simpsons first appeared on US television as part of The Tracey ____ Show ULLMAN

The US equivalent of bogof TWOFER

The ____ of Sauron is his main image in The Lord of the Rings EYE

The ____s that produce pearls are in a different family from the edible ones OYSTER

This former companion of Abraham fled from the city of Sodom LOT

What a satnav helps you to do, as some of them say reach your destination

Worked out by reasoning DEDUCED

____ starred in the title role of Tom Jones, the 1964 best picture Oscar winner Albert Finney