Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
7-August-2022 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Buzz Answers
- 1.Beach with nuisance not acceptable for the nobs
- 2.Measurement taken from crotch to ankle
- 3."Idle hands are the Devil's ____” (English proverb)
- 4.Maiden has to be in Paris endlessly getting round — using this?
- 5.Decoration of furniture with veneers, mainly of wood
- 6.Soldiers by the French border
- 7.Picture in church room vandalised
- 8.The Mysterious ___ at Styles was Agatha Christie's first book
- 9.In America, a luxury car noted for handling rather than comfort
- 10.Good health reduced by 50 per cent? That's awful trouble for Jock
- 11.Purple ____ was once thought to improve dairy cow yields
- 12.Poetess is blue, showing love rather than anger
- 13.Fine boy in Victorian novel
- 14.Someone who ____ made a rather dishonest attempt to get something or impress someone
- 15.Surrey town named from Old English for "river-source”
- 16.Pig with solid figure entering pub
- 17.A rowdy reveller
- 18.Jabber in Society club
- 19.The first name of the singer-songwriter known as Duffy
- 20.Ben ____ was the main writer of the 1920s and 1930s Aldwych farces
- 21.Excellent little addition to sofa? Reverse of that, old
- 22.Prolific actor whose sole Oscar was for his role as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter
- 23.Left looking back, one holy person who sees the Bible in a particular way
- 24.River which empties into the Arabian Sea near Karachi
- 25.The 2013 ____ Dealers Act made it illegal to pay cash for ____
- 26.Piglet: Do you think it's a-a-a Woozle? Pooh: It may be. ____ it is, and ____ it isn't
- 27.Rarely sweat as a second villain on ship?
- 28.Troublesome friends may be "emotionally ____”
- 29.Across a road spot part of a vessel
- 30.2001 action film starring Steven Seagal and rapper DMX
- 31.In 2018, British cyclist ____ became the third rider, after Eddy Mercx and Bernard Hinault, to hold all three Grand Tour titles simultaneously
- 32.Fly in science dull and boring?
- 33.One of two names for a tissue transplant from an unrelated member of the same species
- 34.To make a security no longer tradeable at a stock exchange
- 35.Indentation in basket having name inscribed
- 36.Garden game involving at least a dozen shots per player
- 37.The social worker with energy descending in Kent district
- 38.Spaghetti Junction lies in this suburb of Birmingham
- 39.Plant recommended by Culpeper to cure dimness of sight
- 40.Time to meet actress Thora in the interval
- 41.Being fastidious gets journalist into depression, taking bash
- 42.Main protagonist of children's books by Tove Jansson
- 43.Someone who ____ does not play safe
- 44.Artist set up firm in Bow
- 45.Singer who recorded I Know Him So Well (from Chess) with Barbara Dickson
- 46.What's culturally distinctive in the clan, I fancy
- 47.Hawk once to fly high
- 48.1982 film in which Dustin Hoffman's character uses deception to secure a soap opera role
- 49.Leading Shakespeare actress in late 19th-century Britain
- 50.Land is meadow? Only some, a tenth
- 51."Authority intoxicates, / And makes mere sots of magistrates; / The ____ of it invade the brain” (Samuel Butler)
- 52.Sandy's weird voice is evident in crazy chat
- 53.Male bird having an hour by lake
- 54.Ancient Greece's "father of geometry”
- 55.Joe ____'s plays include Loot and Entertaining Mr Sloane
- 56.A ship in position heading up towards the orient
- 57.German romanesque churches often have ____ at both ends of the nave
- 58.Lionel Messi made his professional debut for FC ____
- 59.Stopping novel three-quarters through — what's smart about that?
- 60.The capital of Brazil, 1763-1960
- 61.Not suitable
- 62.Poetic line produced by son dropping out of academic period
- 63.A common name for various notably prickly shrubs
- 64.Pulls oxen around side of mountain
- 65.Old-fashioned or conservative behaviour
- 66.Small bird, widespread in much of Europe, and found in ancient pinewoods in northern Scotland
- 67.A judge's review of evidence given to the jury
- 68.Scottish judge in old secret about church
- 69.The world's largest bird of prey
- 70.Tree French gentlemen planted in holy location
- 71.Rodney's girlfriend, later wife, in Only Fools and Horses
- 72.Footballer who co-hosted Match of the Day, 1992-2014
- 73.Part of flower damaged in opera porch
- 74.In social insects, a distinct form like queen or worker
- 75.A Lancashire ____ is traditionally served with pickled red cabbage
- 76.Early fruiting variety about to be invaded by a pest shortly
- 77.1991 film starring Michael J Fox as aspiring surgeon Benjamin Stone
- 78.Sanity one lost, somehow becoming nervous
- 79.Informally, anaesthetised
- 80.Hamlet character with a name previously used in The Odyssey
- 81.Shun violent animal — or destroy
- 82.Russian novelist Ivan ____ created the character Oblomov, a personification of procrastination and idleness
- 83.The woman's covering body part — so as not to be this?
- 84.Game show first seen on British TV sets in 1951
- 85.Irish poet who wrote the lyrics for The Last Rose of Summer and The Minstrel Boy
- 86.A father joins Irish singer in great hall