the times specialist 2021 06 13 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Songwriter who played Jess Robin in The Jazz Singer	NEIL DIAMOND
The aristocrat John Bingham was commonly known as ____	LORD LUCAN
The trepang or “sea slug”, a delicacy in oriental cuisine	beche-de-mer
The type of muscles forming a six-pack	ABDOMINAL
Welsh education and training inspectorate, whose name means “to reach out or stretch”	estyn
Works out using logic	DEDUCES
____ by Dickens was subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress	Oliver Twist
Relating to leaves (of a particular type)	PAGINAL
Order proclaimed by a sovereign or government	EDICT
India’s most populous city	MUMBAI
In physics, a particle, often an electron, ejected from matter by ionizing radiation	delta ray
Gordon Kaye’s character in ’Allo ’Allo!	Rene Artois
Former test cricketer and captain, knighted in 2019	ANDREW STRAUSS
Former Arsenal and Chelsea footballer who won seven FA Cup winners’ medals	Ashley Cole
English soldier in Henry V, played by his namesake in a 1989 film adaptation	Michael Williams
Displaying spontaneous playfulness	LUDIC
COUNTY TOWN OF CUMBRIA	CARLISLE
As an Australian colloquialism, to ____ off means to depart	choof
Appointed to office but not yet in office	DESIGNATE
Anglicised name for a dagger used as part of traditional Highland costume	skean dhu
American state in which many Stephen King novels are set	MAINE
Alloy often used to make tableware, up to around 1800	PEWTER
A White Friar	CARMELITE
A type of pastoral dance, named after an Italian island	SICILIANO
“Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, / Stand ____ of Greek and Roman fame?” (Alexander Pope)	EMULOUS

Songwriter who played Jess Robin in The Jazz Singer

NEIL DIAMOND

The aristocrat John Bingham was commonly known as ____

LORD LUCAN

The trepang or “sea slug”, a delicacy in oriental cuisine

beche-de-mer

The type of muscles forming a six-pack

ABDOMINAL

Welsh education and training inspectorate, whose name means “to reach out or stretch”

estyn

Works out using logic

DEDUCES