The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2018 Apr 01

• 8 on the Beaufort scale Crossword Clue
• According to the English Heritage website, this cathedral city is the most frequently besieged place in the British Isles Crossword Clue
• A checkup or viva voce Crossword Clue
• Act as others think you should, eg by resigning Crossword Clue
• After a football goal kick, the ball is not in play until it leaves this area Crossword Clue
• A haemorrhagic fever or the virus causing it Crossword Clue
• American name for a spittoon Crossword Clue
• An old informal meaning of 'corporation' Crossword Clue
• An x, y or z is this kind of number in traditional algebra Crossword Clue
• A quatrain with rhyming scheme a b a b Crossword Clue
• A queen may live here Crossword Clue
• Armour protecting the face and eyes Crossword Clue
• A sauce or pickle adding flavour to food Crossword Clue
• A small case for articles like needles or cosmetics Crossword Clue
• Assiettes de charcuterie or informally, body parts Crossword Clue
• Cause of midday merriness Crossword Clue
• Clyde ____ discovered Pluto in 1930 Crossword Clue
• Daniel Craig stars in this 2008 film about Second World War partisans in German-occupied Poland Crossword Clue
• Execution by drowning, especially at Nantes during the Reign of Terror Crossword Clue
• Feature of a normal heart beat, controlled by the sino-atrial node Crossword Clue
• French composer, conductor of the BBCSO, 1971-75 Crossword Clue
• Frivolous unexpected functionality in computer applications, such as the result of a Google search for 'Bletchley Park' Crossword Clue
• Georgia ____'s best-known paintings were of flowers, skyscrapers, and the New Mexico landscape Crossword Clue
• 'I ____ him, because he is upper class' (Ronnie Barker, in a 1960s TV sketch) Crossword Clue
• In 1960, Herb ___ of Australia was the last man to set a world record in an Olympic 1500m final Crossword Clue
• In 41A, this is 'Domingo de Páscoa' Crossword Clue
• In a state of confusion, supposedly named after an old dispute between City of London livery companies Crossword Clue
• Informally, a plant of the genus Tropaeolum Crossword Clue
• In geometry, part of a shape cut off by a line or plane intersecting it Crossword Clue
• Island featured in a Guardian supplement on April 1, 1977 Crossword Clue
• 'I want to ____, and ____, and ____!' (Vivian Nicholson, after her husband’s £152,000 pools win in 1961) Crossword Clue
• Julie T Wallace starred in the BBC dramatisation of Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a ____ Crossword Clue
• Lacking imagination or originality Crossword Clue
• Large variety of prawn or penguin Crossword Clue
• Leonard Bernstein operetta, based on a novella by Voltaire Crossword Clue
• Liz ____ finished fourth in Labour’s 2015 leadership election? Crossword Clue
• Lullaby sung in the first scene of Porgy and Bess Crossword Clue
• Mexican folk song, adapted by Ritchie Valens in a 1958 hit Crossword Clue
• Mix socially, possibly with those of other classes Crossword Clue
• Mrs ____ is the housekeeper at Manderley Crossword Clue
• One Iberian city after which a dessert wine is named Crossword Clue
• One who classifies or defines Crossword Clue
• Plants featured in a BBC Panorama report on April 1, 1957 Crossword Clue
• Platinum metal element, discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1804 Crossword Clue
• ____ Scream is a rock group founded in Glasgow in 1982 Crossword Clue
• Secondary schools in both Kennington and Croydon were founded by Thomas ____, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1694-1715 Crossword Clue
• Short sleep during a working day Crossword Clue
• Standard Chinese, or the language group including it Crossword Clue
• Stanley Holloway played Alfred ____ in the film version of My Fair Lady Crossword Clue
• Steak ____, popular in the mid-20th century, is similar to steak au poivre, but with a flambéed sauce Crossword Clue
• The final outcome of an endeavour Crossword Clue
• The great ____ is an amphibian, protected in the UK Crossword Clue
• The ideas and attitudes associated with a group of people Crossword Clue
• The language from which English borrowed the words 31A and 43D Crossword Clue
• Thomas ____ married Catherine Parr after Henry VIII died Crossword Clue
• To intimidate Crossword Clue
• To make a humiliating retraction Crossword Clue
• Trafalgar, Lepanto or Salamis Crossword Clue
• Valuable timber from some trees in the genus Dalbergia Crossword Clue