The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2018 Aug 05

• 480 grains = 1 _____ Crossword Clue
• A bone attached to the sternum Crossword Clue
• A friction hitch devised by an Austrian mountaineer Crossword Clue
• “Always ____ trams” (Highway Code) Crossword Clue
• A rock transported by glacial action Crossword Clue
• Arthur ____ was the resident antiques expert on the BBC show Going for a Song Crossword Clue
• A short poem, especially a pastoral dialogue or soliloquy Crossword Clue
• Band name seen on a fictitious band’s bass drum in the video for New Order’s Crystal, later used by an American rock band Crossword Clue
• Brand of black and white film, now made in Cheshire Crossword Clue
• British vehicle launched at the Amsterdam motor show in 1948 Crossword Clue
• Charles Édouard Guillaume invented this nickel/iron alloy Crossword Clue
• Chelsea or Manchester City will win the ____ today Crossword Clue
• Component of cash registers and some calculators Crossword Clue
• Content of a snow dome in titles for BBC World Cup 2018 coverage Crossword Clue
• Done to satisfy superstition or ensure adequate provision Crossword Clue
• Earning no rent Crossword Clue
• Eastbourne’s ____ Park is the home of a tennis tournament Crossword Clue
• Emperor who killed his mother, two wives, and himself Crossword Clue
• Fictional country in Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda Crossword Clue
• For some, these include slow drivers and noisy eaters Crossword Clue
• Iconic headgear for Ena Sharples in Coronation Street Crossword Clue
• If necessary, ____ sugar can be made from granulated sugar with a pestle and mortar Crossword Clue
• In clichéd language, this is wreaked Crossword Clue
• Indian unleavened flatbread Crossword Clue
• Informally, a parasitic mite larva, causing skin itching Crossword Clue
• Informally in backgammon, make a move that puts one of your opponent’s pieces on the bar Crossword Clue
• Informally, “La grande ____” is the Tour de France Crossword Clue
• Informally, Surrey Country Cricket Club’s home ground Crossword Clue
• Iris Murdoch novel set in a lay religious community next door to a convent Crossword Clue
• Jacques ____ originated deconstruction as a form of semiotic analysis Crossword Clue
• John ____’s architecture in London includes the terraced houses of Park Crescent Crossword Clue
• Judging other cultures by the standards of one’s own Crossword Clue
• Location where 51D of Citium taught, and the origin of the name for his followers Crossword Clue
• Lockheed wide-body aircraft produced between 1968 and 1984 Crossword Clue
• Loose skin hanging from the throat of various mammals Crossword Clue
• Member of an eastern European church acknowledging papal supremacy but using its own liturgy Crossword Clue
• Mullein is the common name for this flowering plant genus Crossword Clue
• New York suburb, whose name comes from a Dutch equivalent to “esquire” Crossword Clue
• Novel partly about Billy Pilgrim’s wartime experiences Crossword Clue
• ____ of Citium and ____ of Elea were both ancient Greek philosophers Crossword Clue
• Originally American terpsichorean fitness classes Crossword Clue
• Rainbow-coloured arboreal parrot from the Lesser Sunda Islands Crossword Clue
• Recess where you might find seating or shelving Crossword Clue
• Rhyming facetious slang for common office equipment Crossword Clue
• Sansevieria trifasciata, an evergreen perennial plant Crossword Clue
• “Shee, you guys are so ____ it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off” (Zaphod Beeblebrox) Crossword Clue
• Someone in a dodgy business Crossword Clue
• The Hawthorne ____ is the modification of behaviour by those who know they are being observed Crossword Clue
• The (non-biblical) supposed abode of the souls of unbaptised infants Crossword Clue
• The only successful defender of the Olympic heptathlon title Crossword Clue
• The RNLI use all-weather and ____ lifeboats Crossword Clue
• ____ tides are those with the smallest range Crossword Clue
• To care, as Rhett Butler famously didn’t Crossword Clue
• What you do to sauce with a whisk Crossword Clue
• When accused by Debussy of ignoring form, Erik ____’s response was the piano duet Three Fragments in the Form of a Pear Crossword Clue