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The Times - Specialist Nov 19 2017

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“What’s gone and what’s past help / Should be past ____” (The Winter’s Tale) GRIEF
“____; the centre cannot hold” (WB Yeats) Things fall apart
1857 volume of poems by Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal
19th-century mechanical musical instrument intended to sound like a complete orchestra panharmonicon
A cricket pitch is ____ yards long twenty-two
A gourd, or a tobacco pipe made from its shell CALABASH
A nitrogenous basic compound found in plants, such as morphine or nicotine ALKALOID
A place name TOPONYM
A pub which, hyphenated, might be regarded as nutritionally healthy LOCAL
Ancient Greek warship with three tiers of oars TRIREME
Ancient Roman ceremony which followed the census; a period of five years LUSTRUM
Around 1900, the cheapest ship accommodation STEERAGE
Ballad set to the tune of Londonderry Air Danny Boy
Bedfordshire house used as a location in Never Say Never Again and The World Is Not Enough Luton Hoo
Chewy sweetmeat containing nuts and cherries NOUGAT
Cinema award which, in Australia and New Zealand, is a colloquial word for money OSCAR
City where many demonstrations in the 2005 Cedar Revolution took place BEIRUT
Colour of shirt and shorts in Chelsea’s home strip royal blue
Cornelius “____” Warmerdam held the pole vault world record from 1940 to 1957 DUTCH
Corporate leader who reports to the board of directors (abbreviation) CEO
Creator deity of Incan mythology VIRACOCHA
Deceitful sorcerer of The Faerie Queene archimago
Division of General Motors which closed in 2010 PONTIAC
Element first made and used in the Second World War PLUTONIUM
Forerunner of the sextant ASTROLABE
Former Liberal Democrat leader who succeeded Charles Kennedy Menzies Campbell
Former Radio 4 presenter of Woman’s Hour and Today Sue MacGregor
Formerly, a drink like beer produced without hops ALE
German phrase meaning “yes indeed” ja wohl
In biological taxonomy, an alternative to “vascular plant” tracheophyte
In the distant past years ago
Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio ____ was first to note “canals” on the surface of Mars SCHIAPARELLI
Lars ____ is Denmark’s prime minister RASMUSSEN
Longest side of a right-angled triangle HYPOTENUSE
Milton poem originally published with Samson Agonistes Paradise Regained
Most notable landmark of Paris, to a Parisian La Tour Eiffel
Multinational retail chain founded in the Netherlands in 1932 SPAR
Nato alphabet member between a weight and a boy’s name LIMA
Of a legal proceeding, carried out without a judge, proper venue or jurisdiction coram non judice
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark single which followed Souvenir joan of arc
Pertaining to the calculation of insurance risks and premiums ACTUARIAL
Piano made in New York or Hamburg STEINWAY
Prime minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013 Morgan Tsvangirai
Primordial cells from which a body part develops blastema
Psychoactive drug made from the bark of African trees, used in some countries to combat drug and alcohol addiction ibogaine
Radio 1’s first female presenter Annie Nightingale
Radio comedian of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s Ted Ray
River which forms part of the border between the US and Mexico Rio Grande
Rock outcrops smoothed by glaciation roches moutonnees
Spiny cactus of the southwest US and northern Mexico CHOLLA
Symbol used to indicate a ratio in mathematics COLON
The beard of barley AWN
The buck stopped at her husband’s desk Bess Truman
The Great ____ is a headland northeast of Llandudno ORME
The Great ____ of 1952 killed many Londoners SMOG
The seed of Pisum sativum PEA
The ____ are America’s most successful vocal group to date SUPREMES
The ____ is the longest river in Europe VOLGA
US vice-president succeeded by George Bush in 1981 Walter Mondale
Washington ____ wrote Rip Van Winkle IRVING
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