The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Len McCluskey has been ____’s general secretary since 2011 UNITE
Choux pastry ball, often containing a form of cream PROFITEROLE
Music or dance performance during an interval of a drama ENTR'ACTE
US poet whose life’s work is collected in Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
ITV police drama which ran from 1984 to 2010 The Bill
English artist William ____ painted The Sirens and Ulysses ETTY
Destructive monster created from parts of corpses FRANKENSTEIN
The character also called solidus or slash OBLIQUE
Newcastle’s Town ____ is a large common MOOR
The US-based retailer ____ R Us closed its UK stores in 2018 TOYS
Character actor Roy ___ was in David Frost’s TW3 team KINNEAR
Ballet movement in which a foot slides outwards GLISSE
Controlling sinister character in George du Maurier’s Trilby SVENGALI
A Cuba ____ is a rum cocktail LIBRE
Musician like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Fats Domino or Oscar Peterson PIANIST
Kentish “isle” which is not an island THANET
This is often called a “World’s Fair” in American usage EXPO
Descriptive of Thomas Hardy’s Jude OBSCURE
Alternative name for what Jimmy Carter’s family farmed Monkey nuts
____ played Sharon Watts in EastEnders Letitia Dean
Long narrow pillow BOLSTER
Conifers whose wood was used in English longbows YEW TREES
Guidance on behaviour or conduct COUNSEL
ORDAINED MINISTERS CLERGY
Pat ____ lost Wimbledon singles finals in 2000 and 2001 RAFTER
European state between Styria and Bavaria Upper Austria
Sudden and uncontrollable bouts of deep sleep NARCOLEPSY
Percy ____ presented Gardener’s World from 1969 to 1976 THROWER
A living member of a kingdom or family ANIMAL
Gift tokens VOUCHERS