The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Scottish singer who appeared in the Morrisons 2007 Christmas advertising campaign LULU
FAMILY TITLE MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH CHRISTMAS FATHER
Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile SANTOLINA
THE BRANCHES OF THIS SHRUB, COMMON AROUND LOS ANGELES, ARE USED AS CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS CALIFORNIAN HOLLY
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS CENTRE AROUND THE JAFFA AREA OF THIS ISRAELI CITY TEL AVIV
Prefix indicating multiplication by a billion, or by the 30th power of 2 GIGA
ANNUAL THOROUGHBRED RACE HELD AT THE RANDWICK RACECOURSE IN SYDNEY Australian Oaks
“I strive to be brief, and I become ____” (Horace) OBSCURE
Italy’s “Christmas Witch”, with a similar role to Santa Claus La Befana
GREEK MUSE OF LYRIC POETRY ERATO
HAVING AN APPEARANCE CONSIDERED SUITABLE FOR TV TELEGENIC
HOW A FEMALE SHOPPER MAY BE ADDRESSED MADAM
Frank Sinatra played the eponymous detective in this 1967 film Tony Rome
YORKSHIRE TOWN WHOSE NEARBY STOCKELD PARK IS NOTED FOR ITS CHRISTMAS ILLUMINATIONS WETHERBY
RENEWAL OF LICENCE AFTER EXPIRY OR SUSPENSION REACCREDITATION
Creator of the “gentleman detective” Roderick Alleyn NGAIO MARSH
“Tony Blair speaks with a passion as yet ____ by the cynicism of office” (The Scotsman, in 1997) UNMUTILATED
HOW CHRISTMAS PUDDING IS OFTEN SERVED FLAMBE
CHINESE SYSTEM OF MEDITATIVE PHYSICAL EXERCISE TAI CHI
FIRMLY FIXED SECURE
STAGE NAME OF THE FLEMISH SINGER ESTHER LAMBRECHTS La Esterella
THE ____ WAS A GIFT FROM FRANCE TO THE USA, DEDICATED IN 1886 STATUE OF LIBERTY
IRISH POET WHO WROTE LYRICS FOR THE MINSTREL BOY AND THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER THOMAS MOORE
____ dos Santos Aveiro plays for Juventus and Portugal CRISTIANO RONALDO
AN OLD-FASHIONED BRITISH INDICATION OF AGREEMENT RIGHTY HO
In an elaborately decorated style ORNATELY
In words attributed to Lord Acton, “All power corrupts … and absolute power is even ____” NICER
Colombia’s most capped goalkeeper and the only one with a clean sheet in a Copa America competition (in 2001) OSCAR CORDOBA
A CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION BAUBLE
Aden Gillett plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the ____’s current production of A Christmas Carol Royal Shakespeare Company
FESTIVAL FOR WHICH JINGLE BELLS WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN THANKSGIVING
KEY TO THE RIGHT OF THE HASH SYMBOL ON A STANDARD UK KEYBOARD ENTER
CITY WHICH HAS DONATED THE CHRISTMAS TREE TRAFALGAR SQUARE SINCE 1947 OSLO
DOCUMENT LISTING GOODS AND THE AMOUNT DUE FOR PAYMENT INVOICE
“Scintillate” shares an etymological origin with this Christmas decoration TINSEL
EPITHET ADDED TO A NAME, AS IN ALEXANDER THE GREAT AVIGNON
Tenzin Gyatso’s title DALAI LAMA
American equivalent of a unit trust MUTUAL FUND
Any of the Gilbert and Sullivan works originally presented by the D’Oyly Carte company SAVOY OPERA
SACRAMENT COMMEMORATING THE LAST SUPPER EUCHARIST
COLLOQUIALLY, EDIBLE PRODUCE FROM GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOURCES FRANKENSTEIN FOOD
The maple genus ACER
Short-necked jars of ancient Greece STAMNOI
American department store which published the 1939 booklet in which Rudolph the Reindeer first appeared MONTGOMERY WARD
Wealthy, derived from the Latin for “flow towards” AFFLUENT
Actress who played Sally in When Harry Met Sally … MEG RYAN
The ____ features Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding Mighty Boosh
Creator of Rip Van Winkle and the idea of Santa’s flying sleigh WASHINGTON IRVING
A TREAD AND A ____ CONSTITUTE A STEP RISER
From Yiddish, a female gossip or busybody YENTA
DEFICIENT, INADEQUATE SCANTY
COLLECTION OF RHYMES PUBLISHED IN 1744, CONSIDERED THE FIRST VOLUME FOR CHILDREN A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
SINGER WHOSE ONLY CHRISTMAS-THEMED SINGLE WAS DECEMBER WILL BE MAGIC AGAIN, IN 1979 KATE BUSH
2009 Pat Holden film about a firm of Tranmere Rovers fans AWAYDAYS
Narrow strips connecting larger land areas ISTHMI
William Makepeace Thackeray’s “novel without a hero” VANITY FAIR