The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2019 Oct 27

• 1954 epic film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa Crossword Clue
• Abbreviated, a weapon such as the Peacekeeper Crossword Clue
• A kind of profanity deleted in Watergate tape transcripts Crossword Clue
• A lanthanide, one of four elements all named after the same mining village in Sweden Crossword Clue
• American actress; wife of Shakespeare Crossword Clue
• A rounded convex architectural moulding Crossword Clue
• As a musical instruction, gradually slowing and becoming quieter Crossword Clue
• A seemingly bottomless chasm Crossword Clue
• Australian female tennis player, currently the world No 1 Crossword Clue
• Baseball catcher and manager who said “If you come to a fork in the road, take it” Crossword Clue
• Birthmarks or moles Crossword Clue
• Capital of Cambodia Crossword Clue
• Central character of The Merchant of Venice Crossword Clue
• Cheshire town which is popular with train-spotters Crossword Clue
• Coconut husk fibre Crossword Clue
• Composer of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) Crossword Clue
• Computer which beat Garry Kasparov in a game of chess in 1996 Crossword Clue
• Controversial 1959 William S Burroughs novel Crossword Clue
• Flat grey sheet of cloud Crossword Clue
• French cheese similar to Gruyère Crossword Clue
• Genus to which holly belongs Crossword Clue
• Horace: “Dolly Levi, you are a damned ____ woman” Dolly: “Why Horace Vandergelder, that is the nicest thing you have ever said to me” (Hello, Dolly!) Crossword Clue
• “In all my associations with hunters, travellers and naturalists, I have never yet been able to find one who would defend the ____” (Theodore Roosevelt) Crossword Clue
• Irish author whose debut novel was The Country Girls Crossword Clue
• Italian flatbread topped with herbs and salt Crossword Clue
• Jewish woman who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus Crossword Clue
• King Lear character with an illegitimate son, Edmund Crossword Clue
• Le Baiser, an Auguste Rodin sculpture of 1882 Crossword Clue
• Lewd bespectacled comic creation of Les Dawson Crossword Clue
• “Love truth, but pardon ____” (Voltaire) Crossword Clue
• Maori term for someone of European descent Crossword Clue
• Marks in the same places as Christ’s crucifixion wounds Crossword Clue
• Medieval Latin hymn referenced in many works of classical music Crossword Clue
• Mercury, to alchemists Crossword Clue
• Mozart opera about a king of Crete Crossword Clue
• Musical composition used as practice material, or to display virtuosity Crossword Clue
• Plant known as Adam’s needle Crossword Clue
• Plant of the daisy family’s “flea-bane” genus Crossword Clue
• Sinew Crossword Clue
• Spooks character, an MI5 intelligence analyst, played by Nicola Walker Crossword Clue
• Sumo wrestler Crossword Clue
• Swiss town in Valais, famed as a ski resort Crossword Clue
• Tangled thickets of shrubs in the southwestern USA Crossword Clue
• The author of Cranford Crossword Clue
• The ____, Ealing comedy named after a Battersea street Crossword Clue
• “The ____” is a local informal name for the Witwatersrand scarp Crossword Clue
• “The Russians are liars — you can’t trust them” (Harry S Truman, talking about the 1945 ____ conference) Crossword Clue
• Title of singles by Aretha Franklin, Nik Kershaw, Split Enz, and Debbie Gibson Crossword Clue