The Times Specialist – Solution List – 6-November-2022
1.____ has had eight nominations for the best director Oscar, and two wins
STEVEN SPIELBERG
2.Bass missing in clear sound
RIGHT
3.The Birth of Venus is one of ____’s best-known paintings
BOTTICELLI
4.Greek name for the king Romans called Ulysses
ODYSSEUS
5.What’s great with riding for pleasure?
WHACKING
6.In short, one type of compound which is being phased out under the Montreal Protocol
CFC
7.The island on which cricketer Garfield Sobers was born
BARBADOS
8.About the start of restaurant meal, one’s given out?
CARTE
9.Long garments worn in church by priests or choristers
CASSOCKS
10.Loss of French corps in action
DECREASE
11.Part of Sunday on BBC TV since 1961
SONGS OF PRAISE
12.Heraldic and legendary winged dragon with two legs
WYVERN
13.French resort where one might win a Palme d’Or
CANNES
14.One about to get help at sea for swimmer
ACALEPH
15.Gap got rid of stores back in September
SHERD
16.”Power tastes best when ____ by courtesy” (George RR Martin)
SWEETENED
17.Visigothic king who captured Rome in AD410
ALARIC
18.”What ____ thou, my bully-rook?” (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
SAYEST
19.Criticise what’s put before me: famous oysters
PANDORE
20.End with academic course in French town
DIEPPE
21.English composer who collaborated with Benjamin Britten on the 1937 suite Mont Juic
LENNOX BERKELEY
22.Actress who played Ripley in Alien and had a surprising cameo in ITV’s Doc Martin
SIGOURNEY WEAVER
23.Robert Palmer song whose video was parodied by Bill Nighy’s aging rocker in the film Love Actually
ADDICTED TO LOVE
24.Teacher associated with learner’s close shave
BARBER
25.Count on American from the south getting stick
MALLET
26.Unsuccessful dueller in Romeo and Juliet
TYBALT
27.In botany, two plant parts growing closely together are ____
ADNATE
28.Gathered little resistance shown by United
RALLIED
29.Not entirely empty kennel for a dog
TYKE
30.How do you make a ____? Push him off an alp!
SWISS ROLL
31.Indian grass showing up a redness
DURA
32.The stately home ____ Abbey has the best-preserved version of the Armada portrait of Elizabeth I
WOBURN
33.Played, fiddled or flirted
TOYED
34.Hard disk unwanted ?— it’s fallen out of use
SLID
35.High cost includes first-class fare from Mexico
TACOS
36.The devoted housekeeper of David Copperfield
CLARA PEGGOTTY
37.Pieces of grievous anarchy Trump supported?
GATS
38.Skewered and grilled chicken in Japanese cuisine
YAKITORI
39.Meryl Streep starred in The Devil Wears ____
PRADA
40.More aware of the latest record in hot period
HEPPER
41.Traditionally, the first animal in the Chinese zodiac
RAT
42.The expected duration of a journey from Earth to Mars
NINE MONTHS
43.Forget about any drips with this whirling
SPIN DRY
44.City which is home to the Ashmolean Museum
SPIN DRY
45.Richard Warren ____ co-founded a mail order firm which later became the USA’s largest retailer
SEARS
46.Minutes are not including name for body of vassals
MANRENT
47.Muhammad Ali was also known as the ____ Lip
LOUISVILLE
48.Jeweller’s ____ is fine ferric oxide powder used for polishing
ROUGE
49.One tailless rodent in container for deadly snake
KARAIT
50.”We’re ____, / Come on, my honey” (song lyrics from Gold Diggers of 1933)
IN THE MONEY
51.A type of monk or a type of monkey
CAPUCHIN
52.The new primer is about pesticide
PERMETHRIN
53.Largest body of water within the United States
LAKE MICHIGAN
54.____’s Bible was the first complete English translation
WYCLIFFE
55.One square metre area adopted by resort
CENTARE
56.Old kilted plates a hit with the lads
LAMBOYS
57.This US state’s highest point is just 345ft above sea level
FLORIDA
58.Antipodean public holiday commemorating a landing on January 26, 1788
AUSTRALIA DAY
59.Tool which may be slip-joint or needle-nose
PLIERS
60.Your chaps came out in a skin condition
ECTHYMA
61.Credit filling hospital food
SCRAN
62.”____ that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed” (Martin Luther King)
I HAVE A DREAM
63.”The road of ____ leads to the palace of wisdom” (Blake)
EXCESS
64.Nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree
DAPHNE
65.Veteran’s gone astray in southern seaside town, as reported
WRIED
66.Greek daughter in song finished loveless
ARIADNE
67.____ fibratus is the most common species of this cloud genus
CIRRUS
68.Latin phrase meaning “it is so”
ITA EST
69.Article on monster Indian tree
AGILA
70.Asian trees naturalised in Britain, with red or yellow fruit sometimes used for jam
CHERRY PLUMS
71.Sadly no acreage accepted for type of evening primroses
ONAGRACEAE
72.Global online discussion system used since 1980
USENET
73.Late actor whose sister was known as Hanoi Jane
PETER FONDA
74.Capital risk, second hundred goes missing in Scottish district
PARISCHANE
75.Look north and south for clubs in Scotland
AIRNS
76.Sanna Marin is the prime minister of this country
FINLAND
77.Boiled Italian greens could make you retch as before
STREIGNE
78.New Jersey resort whose street names were used in the first version of Monopoly
ATLANTIC CITY
79.Stuffed vine leaves and cheese back in sold out
DOLMADES
80.Scholar’s call for truce as if in for trouble
FAINS I
81.1980s sit-com with eponymous characters Rick, Neil, Vyvyan and Mike
THE YOUNG ONES
82.Scottish rock band fronted by Sharleen Spiteri
TEXAS
83.Nothing’s in front of Nigel Havers that’s simple and straightforward
NO NONSENSE
84.”The Present is all _____ with eternal rays” (CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters)
LIT UP
85.Aberdonian shrink following origins of tiredness advised drug?
TACRINE
86.Koalas feed almost exclusively on ____ trees
EUCALYPTUS
