The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 09 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Statuettes designed by art director Cedric Gibbons OSCARS
Wikipedia’s name for an article too short to provide encyclopaedic coverage STUB
Milled durum wheat product used to make polenta SEMOLINA
Fairy tale woodcutter’s daughter who kills a witch GRETEL
Emanuel ____ was world chess champion for 27 years LASKER
Dog breed originally used to ?“flush” game from cover SPRINGER SPANIEL
Film in which Marlon Brando plays Sky Masterson Guys And Dolls
Form of football invented at a public school ETON WALL GAME
Former patent clerk who won a 1921 Nobel prize Albert Einstein
“No admittance. Not even ____ personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.” (Douglas Adams) AUTHORISED
“If a topic makes you […] laugh, or sigh, or ____ — or react physically in any way — you have a winner” (Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist) RETCH
“Everybody’s Free (To Wear ____)” (1997 spoken word song by Baz Luhrmann, quoting Mary Schmich) SUNSCREEN
In biology, having multiple small branches ramulose
Norman ____ is an archenemy of Spider-Man OSBORN
Primary goddess of Babylonians and Assyrians ISHTAR
Primo Levi novel first published in 1982 as Se non ora, quando? If Not Now When
Sobriquet shared by a duchess and an ex-football manager FERGIE
Yorkshire playwright who wrote Talking Heads ALAN BENNETT
African capital founded as a settlement for liberated slaves FREETOWN
A British soldier in 1776 or a camp entertainer? REDCOAT
1983 cross-dressing Barbra Streisand film YENTL