Category: The Times – Specialist
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1. Most irritable
2. Endless corruption absorbed by the old American
3. Female journalist writing articles of sentimental appeal
4. Freeman, company boss attached to both sides
5. Late January celebration of Shetland's Norse heritage
6. A wealthy well-travelled socialite
7. Payment one accepted for concave moulding
8. The purest and noblest knight of the Round Table
9. A little boy catches fly
10. Incense burners for the home
11. US-born author of verse volumes The Colossus and Ariel
12. What some TT reformers might do for an explanation
13. French writer of prophesies in rhymed quatrains
14. Recall movement in scores of MacMillan
15. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the 1978 Booker Prize
16. In skiing, a straight high-speed downhill run
17. Given a new role take advanced supersonic transport
18. Byzantine emperor responsible for the revision and compilation of Roman imperial law
19. Musicians whose playing is on the slide
20. Lightermen last to encourage shelducks
21. Description of an area like 34A rather than the West End
22. Irish dramatist who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield
23. New World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
24. Old head of English in school uttered the call
25. Stella drunk in Rock could get you this
26. Affluent London district with grand terraces of white stucco houses
27. Small chalk grassland plant with pink flowers
28. Materially wrong about potassium measurement in labs
29. Sort of ranks remaining
30. Technology using gas or liquid to operate a control system, rather than electronics
31. Silent leaving clubs? Only a bit in Glasgow
32. Always there!
33. Unfinished search for item in playground up north
34. A round, semisweet biscuit made from wholemeal flour
35. ____ replaced ash as the main body wood for Fender guitars in 1956
36. Restaurant specialising in roasted and barbecued meat
37. Insult chaps spoken of in front
38. "I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and ____s?” (Stephen Hawking)
39. The old take plan without a pinch of salt
40. Latin-based name for a group of people summoned to serve on a jury
41. Sewer-dwelling teenage superheroes whose trainer and adoptive father is a mutant rat called Splinter
42. Inconsistent person turned up before Christmas over
43. ____Knightley played Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice
44. Cobblers urge beginning with last
45. Ornamental pot or trough for flowers
46. Tense journalist fellow union's leader ignored
47. Adult leader of a pack of Cub Scouts
48. 1965 No 1 hit for Sonny and Cher, taken from their debut studio album
49. Wrought iron case in outline
50. Hybrid red fruits whose name shows their Scottish origin
51. Stress about infectious diseases? It happens
52. Small cup used for serving Turkish or espresso coffee
53. Common name for Citrus reticulata or its fruit
54. Colloquial term for the traditional postal system
55. Shy about going before audience in dressing room
56. US soprano who died on September 30 — her statement that "pigeonholes are for pigeons” reflected her wide repertoire
57. Fruit from the east without flavour mostly
58. The ending (in the British Empire) of slavery after William Wilberforce's campaigns
59. ____ Day is a public holiday on the first Monday after January 26
60. ____ Cole played Joan Norton in Doc Martin
61. County resident not right to reveal pig iron on board
62. Short of backing many in choir impromptu getting out of tune
63. Charity supporting single-parent families
64. Musician such as Heinz Holliger
65. Composer of the guitar concerto Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre
66. Cordial company sharing a seat
67. Love kiss on the kisser from an African bird
68. The brightest star in the constellation Virgo
69. Nipper heard ____ in Francis Barraud's famous painting
70. Sound quality not so fierce around bass
71. Briefs a nipper lifted up
72. Old name for a large merchant ship
73. Playwright whose social dramas include Ghosts and The Wild Duck
74. Malevolent spirit believed to rob graves and devour corpses
75. Nut eating honey and cereal
76. Brightly coloured popular aquarium fish, native to the Amazon basin
77. Students below, look up in group of trees
78. The traditional venue for the San Marino Grand Prix
79. Tatum ____ was the youngest winner of a competitive Academy award, for her role in Paper Moon
80. Go around a green for limestone deposit
81. Fama is able to grow "by going” (Aen 4.175): "viresque adquirit ____”
82. Animal parvum; "parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus ____” Horace Ars Poetica 139
83. Let him out!
84. Minus albus, darker, sadder
85. Properly; recto modo
86. Adhibere partem cautionis (deponent)
87. Mea interest, mea ____: it makes a difference to me
88. Qui in Africa habitabant; "proximi Hispaniam ____ sunt” Sallust Jugurtha 19
89. . . . it's a narrative of events; annals, fasti
90. Vi abducit, abstrahit
91. ____ cumulare dapibus: to pile the table with a feast
92. QED: quod erat ____ (gerundive of course!)
93. I am being racked with pain; eg ____ miser (Terence Andria 5.2.10)
94. Flores ____ ut puellae placeret: he had picked . . .
95. Praeda. 4 pilo deletur?
96. Horace's own; he claims "princeps Aeolium 11 ad ____ | deduxisse modos” (Odes 3.30)
97. US motto, a model of unity
98. Pollicita est, dixit, immo iuravit
99. Pello; I push, shove
100. Song, poem