The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 11 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
1/1 EVENS
See 24D NINE
Distilling apparatus formerly used by alchemists ALEMBIC
Spreaders of opinion via social media TWITTERATI
Things which are mysterious, or meant for a tiny audience ESOTERICA
To behave badly ACT UP
Daisy Ashford wrote The ____ when she was 5D, and it was mostly unchanged when published 28 years later Young Visiters
Original rank of Nyota Uhura in Star Trek LIEUTENANT
Of a person, having a large solid body HEAVYSET
In Microsoft Word 2019, Gigi, Broadway or Playbill TYPEFACE
The short form of a fancy word for “smelly” ODIFEROUS
The new role of Dolly Alderton in our Style supplement AGONY AUNT
Ban (someone) from participation in church sacraments EXCOMMUNICATE
Bacterium which is spherical or nearly so COCCUS
An old-fashioned sweet pudding; insincere compliments FLUMMERY
An elevated but static trot in dressage PIAFFE
A photon books in at a hotel. Receptionist: Do you have any luggage? Photon: No, I’m ____ travelling light
A former French title for a clergyman ABBE
A design, especially one used as part of a pattern MOTIF
“____ me, my sweet ____able you” (Ira Gershwin) EMBRACE
“Extinct” order of fish, until an Indian Ocean find in 1938 COELACANTH
“A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an ____ political cartoon look like?’” (Salman Rushdie) INOFFENSIVE
Cleaning or purifying process using vapour FUMIGATION
Source of power introduced by America’s Eveready company in 1907 AA batteries
Singapore prison; a Second World War PoW camp nearby changi
Shirley ____, who admitted to occasional cigarette-smoking, won Olympic 100m hurdles silver in 1984 STRONG
Royal Troon’s famous very short hole POSTAGE STAMP
Informally, a former furniture retailer in London’s Tottenham Court Road MAPLES
The storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights SCHEHERAZADE
____ share male ancestry AGNATES
Holiday accommodation which includes self-catering flats APARTOTEL
BBC Two documentary series, aired 1965-82, about a wide range of people MAN ALIVE