The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Old boring jig? LOURE
Downy perennial also called cinquefoil or bloodroot TORMENTIL
Best friend of Charlie Brown LINUS
Simple parcel given by English children lo-tech
To send people, especially troops, by road transport EMBUS
That which precedes maggio in Italy APRILE
The capital of Oman MUSCAT
Old name for an English-based creole or pidgin language talkee-talkee
’Allo ’Allo! character who “shall say zis only once” MICHELLE DUBOIS
Philological Society about to smear (in a poetic sense) conclusions POINTS
Nursery rhyme character used as a frequent motif in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake HUMPTY DUMPTY
Received an invitation to play for a national team was capped
Radiology department’s way in aptly rent or damaged entry portal
Horse having energy for nada hoc loco? HEREIN
“I am willing to love all ____, except an American” (Samuel Johnson) MANKIND
____’s hits include Song Sung Blue and Sweet Caroline NEIL DIAMOND
End of one special housing estate, say, demanding drop? ESCARP
A product of melted sugar CARAMEL
TV commercial which lasts for just a few seconds blipvert
Husband who’s not a natural gent set up in shifting señor’s shields RONDACHES
Review about person I have is realised realistically in perspective
Take prescription as excellent tips from eye clinic assumed RECIPE
Filled dumplings from eastern Europe PIEROGI
Splenetic fiction and note on a lecturer LIENAL
Most fish round conflict finding support for collective activity groupware
Lost age’s compliance in trust turned up before epocha
A “living picture” in art TABLEAU VIVANT
Coastal surveillance team watch grifter first shark patrol
SpaceX launch vehicle which carried a Tesla Roadster in 2018 Falcon Heavy
Plantations waste away over time, one added PINETA
Children’s TV series (1998-2000) based on an Enid Blyton character NODDY
Stinker from translator in error TROUT
To quibble over details PETTIFOG
Honey guide from Wellington, it appears in Uncle Sam’s old tip GRATUITY
Distraught Euboean’s lost barrels of bronze AENEOUS
One attendant on deity’s returning capacity to bear such as lust panisc
____ won a best actress Oscar for her role in Black Swan Natalie Portman
Wetland feeder mostly finding a quantity of fish CRAN
Outwits cops wanting answer BESTS
The capital of Togo LOME
In short form top officer subverted local tangle being a measure of type CICERO
In a cleverly simple or ingenious way ELEGANTLY
Perhaps Colombian plainsman left a loner roving LLANERO
The bellflower Campanula rapunculus RAMPION
“Let it stand” in proofreading marks STET
Edge near a new figment of her imagination? he-man
American cinema charging five cents for admission NICKELODEON