The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2019 Aug 25

• 1993 film billed as “the first hip-hop whodunnit” Crossword Clue
• A big problem or important question Crossword Clue
• Actor who played Ender Wiggin in the 2013 film Ender’s Game Crossword Clue
• Amorous outdoor scenes, eg those painted by Watteau Crossword Clue
• An idiom such as “al dente” or “bel canto” Crossword Clue
• Another name for many types of otary Crossword Clue
• A session of work Crossword Clue
• A South American flightless bird and a satellite of Saturn Crossword Clue
• Author of The Bell Jar Crossword Clue
• ____ became Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002 Crossword Clue
• Born in Bath, a comedian who once played football for Basingstoke Town Crossword Clue
• ____ bowls has a playing area with a raised centre Crossword Clue
• Cock ____, founded in London’s East End in 1972, was an influential punk rock band Crossword Clue
• Dutch polymath Christiaan ____ invented the pendulum clock and discovered Titan, Saturn’s largest moon Crossword Clue
• Exclamation of surprise, often thought of as Australian Crossword Clue
• From 1878, all papal conclaves have been in the ____ Chapel Crossword Clue
• Fruit of the blackthorn Crossword Clue
• Graffiti “addendum” indicating dominance Crossword Clue
• Gymnast Mary Lou ____ won women’s all-around gold at the 1984 Olympics Crossword Clue
• In limited-overs cricket, a period with fielding restrictions Crossword Clue
• James ____ was the BBC’s main reporter on Apollo missions Crossword Clue
• Joan ____, Spanish surrealist painter Crossword Clue
• Kings of Leon’s follow-up single to Sex on Fire Crossword Clue
• Lyric poem with couplets of a long line followed by a shorter one Crossword Clue
• Manager of Middlesbrough when they won the League Cup in 2004 Crossword Clue
• Mexican agave plant, or more commonly, its fibre Crossword Clue
• Name for some verse, sometimes compared to music Crossword Clue
• Name originally used for a European wolf spider Crossword Clue
• New York City is popularly called the ____ Crossword Clue
• One of the gods invoked by Sarastro in the aria starting Act 2 of The Magic Flute Crossword Clue
• Peter ____ was the most recent male winner of the Olympic 800m and 1500m double, in 1964 Crossword Clue
• Political theory developed by Lev Davidovich Bronstein Crossword Clue
• Primal Scream’s most successful single, Country Girl, came from this album Crossword Clue
• Second letter of the Nato alphabet Crossword Clue
• Serious condition created by the body’s response to harmful microorganisms Crossword Clue
• Small car, traditionally using an overhead power supply Crossword Clue
• Song after which Janet Webb often thanked TV viewers for “watching me and my little show here tonight” Crossword Clue
• Spanish explorer, the first European documented as crossing the Mississippi Crossword Clue
• Terrestrial crustacean of the Oniscidae family Crossword Clue
• TETANUS, ATTUNES, UNSTATE, ____ Crossword Clue
• The ____, 2010 Howard Jacobson novel and winner of the Man Booker prize Crossword Clue
• The author who created Roderick Random Crossword Clue
• The cap of a mushroom Crossword Clue
• The central principle in a speech or literary work Crossword Clue
• “Thou still ____ bride of quietness” (Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn) Crossword Clue
• To give (someone) the runaround Crossword Clue
• Toni Morrison novel featuring Macon “Milkman” Dead III Crossword Clue
• Tournament in which each player competes against every other in turn Crossword Clue
• Vega is in this constellation Crossword Clue
• “With butter” in Italian cuisine, eg in the dish that became Fettucine Alfredo Crossword Clue