The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 04 14

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Weasel-like animals formerly called foulmarts POLECATS
In Kantian philosophy, a sense of direct perception ANSCHAUUNG
Formal term for gullets OESOPHAGI
Flat-bottomed barge used to transport freight SCOW
Music award once won but declined by Sinead O’Connor GRAMMY
Egyptian god seen as a protector of graves and cemeteries ANUBIS
People who are very passionate about a cause FIREBRANDS
American term for mixed spirit served in a tall glass HIGHBALL
Soul singer who released Your Love is King in 1984 SADE
The beginning of Act 1 CURTAIN UP
Toy involved in a 1950s craze; a potato and maize crisp hula hoop
First novel in Sue Grafton’s Alphabet mystery series A Is For Alibi
Device used to transfer people in nautical emergencies breeches-buoy
Of wood, being dense or compact in nature close-grained
A form of social welfare first paid on January 1, 1909 old age pension
Roy Orbison song lip-synched to by Dean Stockwell in David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet In Dreams
1980s sitcom starring Judy Dench and Michael Williams A Fine Romance
Garment named after an atomic test site, because of its imagined explosive effect BIKINI
Letters which replaced ROMA on coins in about AUC 674 SPQR