The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 06 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Alloy often used to make tableware, up to around 1800 PEWTER
____ by Dickens was subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress Oliver Twist
Former Arsenal and Chelsea footballer who won seven FA Cup winners’ medals Ashley Cole
Welsh education and training inspectorate, whose name means “to reach out or stretch” estyn
“Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, / Stand ____ of Greek and Roman fame?” (Alexander Pope) EMULOUS
Former test cricketer and captain, knighted in 2019 ANDREW STRAUSS
Works out using logic DEDUCES
The type of muscles forming a six-pack ABDOMINAL
Appointed to office but not yet in office DESIGNATE
Relating to leaves (of a particular type) PAGINAL
The trepang or “sea slug”, a delicacy in oriental cuisine beche-de-mer
Displaying spontaneous playfulness LUDIC
Songwriter who played Jess Robin in The Jazz Singer NEIL DIAMOND
The aristocrat John Bingham was commonly known as ____ LORD LUCAN
As an Australian colloquialism, to ____ off means to depart choof
Anglicised name for a dagger used as part of traditional Highland costume skean dhu
A type of pastoral dance, named after an Italian island SICILIANO
A White Friar CARMELITE
Gordon Kaye’s character in ’Allo ’Allo! Rene Artois
English soldier in Henry V, played by his namesake in a 1989 film adaptation Michael Williams
COUNTY TOWN OF CUMBRIA CARLISLE
In physics, a particle, often an electron, ejected from matter by ionizing radiation delta ray
American state in which many Stephen King novels are set MAINE
Order proclaimed by a sovereign or government EDICT
India’s most populous city MUMBAI