The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 10 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Drug derived from vitamin A, used to treat skin conditions retinoid
“For zeal’s a dreadful ____, / That teaches saints to tear and cant” (Samuel Butler, Hudibras) TERMAGANT
Old word meaning “silvery” or made of silver ARGENTINE
John Greenleaf ____ was noted for anti-slavery campaigning and nostalgic poems about New England WHITTIER
____! was a 2003 biographical film written, directed, produced by and starring Mario Van Peebles baadasssss
Former All Blacks player who was nicknamed Pinetree Colin Meads
In A Fish Called Wanda, Kevin Kline played ____ West OTTO
____ became a comic strip rival to Buck Rogers in 1934 Flash Gordon
German tennis player who was ranked as world No 1 for a record 377 weeks Steffi Graf
____’s first novel was The World is Full of Married Men Jackie Collins
The ____ was a 1958 sci-fi horror film in which a large amoeba-like entity terrorised rural Pennsylvania BLOB
Conglomerate of rounded pebbles in a contrasting matrix pudding stone
THE CAPITAL OF KENYA NAIROBI
BBC2 series which started at Dover’s cliffs in 2005 COAST
A case or stand in which spirit decanters are locked but visible TANTALUS
The usual American alternative to “Ltd” INC
Supermarket chain promoted by Muzz Khan as “Sunny” asda
Australian TV’s first soap opera, launched in 1958 Autumn Affair
Propaganda/surveillance device in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four TELESCREEN
“Why, ’tis good to be sad and say ____” (As You Like It) NOTHING
To amicably accept a clash of opinions agree to differ
Rodent making a spherical breeding nest above ground HARVEST MOUSE