The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
LONG (FOR) YEARN
The ____ is an English language newspaper published in India since 1875 STATESMAN
Old synonym for “lifted” or “removed”, now only used in an idiomatic phrase HOIST
Fictional collie created in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight LASSIE
Device typically used for a dial-up internet service MODEM
Ceres and Pluto are ____ planets DWARF
Canada’s national summer sport LACROSSE
Books which are sold off cheaply REMAINDERS
Heraldic body located on Queen Victoria Street, London college of arms
A Sundance Film Festival entry, typically INDIE
Hoarding secretly STASHING
1975 trucking song featuring Rubber Duck CONVOY
1960 Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medallist Cassius Clay
Idiomatic phrase about extinction, used in Piers Plowman (c. 1370) dead as a doornail
“Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain foiled again
The muse of comedy THALIA
France’s longest river LOIRE
____ played James T Kirk in several Star Trek films (2009-2016) Chris Pine
The Scuderia Ferrari team’s home racing circuit IMOLA
The name of TS Eliot’s Old Gumbie Cat JENNYANYDOTS
The “Adulterous”, “Placemakers’” and “Sin on” ____ were named after printing errors BIBLES
That which may colloquially be called a posse ENTOURAGE
Real name of rapper Puff Daddy Sean Combs
Alistair ____ wrote Ice Station Zebra MACLEAN
A roadside cafe, colloquially GREASY SPOON
“Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart ____ a mystery” (Tennyson) FOREBODES