The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Fruit produced by hybridisation of mandarin orange and grapefruit trees TANGELO
London Zoo’s Snowdon ____ is being repurposed to house colobus monkeys AVIARY
Nationality of Red Cross co-founder Henri Dunant SWISS
Musical category into which Blur, Oasis and Pulp fit BRITPOP
Victorian art critic John ____ wrote Modern Painters RUSKIN
Dr Johnson’s essay series The ____ included Sleep and Robbery of Time IDLER
Central feature of Vietnam’s flag STAR
English football team whose ground is Selhurst Park CRYSTAL PALACE
Informally, Crambe maritima, a coastal plant sometimes used as a vegetable sea kale
Jazz trumpeter whose nicknames included “Pops” Louis Armstrong
Actress who played Princess Leia in Star Wars Carrie Fisher
Biblically, a descendant of Jacob ISRAELITE
1980s fashion items originally worn by cheerleaders ra-ra skirts
Term for Edward VIII following December 10, 1936 abdicant
The ____ (1972) is Pier Paolo Pasolini’s version of some Middle English literature Canterbury Tales
“Soy un perdedor, / I’m a ____ baby, so why don’t you kill me?” (Beck) LOSER
“Pretentious? ____?” (Fawlty Towers) MOI
“Mamma mia, here I go again. / My my, how can I ____ you?” (Abba) RESIST
Soprano Nellie ____ appears on Australia’s 100 dollar note MELBA
An irrational or extreme fear of confined spaces CLAUSTROPHOBIA