The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Pantomime character based on a medieval merchant Dick Whittington
Painful condition known technically as onychocryptosis ingrown toenail
Incapable of being relieved or mitigated unassuageable
Form of exercise also called an abdominal bridge PLANK
Detention centre “treatment” promised as a future government action by William Whitelaw in 1977 short sharp shock
Colloquially, suffered humiliation ate dirt
Archaically, a week an eight days
1992 legal drama film based on a 1989 Aaron Sorkin play A Few Good Men
In old-fashioned informal speech, in disguise INCOG
Like a mule or hinny INTERBRED
Rapid transport system situated around Spain’s Ibaizabal river Metro Bilbao
Rod Hull’s violent sidekick on 1970s and 1980s TV EMU
Traditional Arabian long-sleeved hooded cloaks djellabas
Diacritic mark which is part of its own name in Czech HACEK
Of a rope, separated into individual strands (nautical) UNLAID
Punk band founded and fronted by Dave Vanian THE DAMNED
Word for “child”, derived ultimately from Latin “unable to speak” INFANT
1976 comedic novel by Tom Sharpe WILT
“I am at a stage in my life […] where I am completely ____ to what I am as a writer” (John le Carré) RECONCILED
“Ha, ha! Give me to drink ____” (Antony and Cleopatra) MANDRAGORA