The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Finally, transport cafe — roll on once-for-all
Freak freed in a prank played by French fredaine
In a rarely used way preposterously do West African kroo
Being peevish in speech I squint cross-eye
Ludicrous poem is about Loch’s lustreless gem semi-opal
Act central to Whisky Galore! managed by Scots personality ransel
First schoolgirl finding service in Rome MISSA
Outmoded field of study concerning French soul reame
Secretary’s first to mind about King’s presumed misprint scarre
Eg, Fred Baron — chap who adds value BASSET
Desert conflict contained by anarchist REWARD
Delight as little Italian embraces eccentricity TREAT
Whirling tender god? EROS
Cushion punch after embraces HASSOCK
Cue story about chivalry COURTESY
According to art chaps will be identical in Scotland samen
____ winds blow up slopes heated by sunshine anabatic
Cart rolling up during morning run is early drinker’s datum? YARDARM
Location finder is bidirectional and excellent on most craft RADAR
Russian leader who, on his resignation in 1999, named Vladimir Putin acting president of Russia Boris Yeltsin
Such as a group of maids a-milking joining only child, little ’un OCTAD
One of nine women in a famous song DANCER
Neon, helium and argon, for example noble gases
Up-to-date ingenuity replacing ads in store ADROITNESS
HATES INTENSELY DETESTS
Vagrant, true one in transit EN ROUTE
Egyptian goddess whose headdress in some depictions is a sun disc between cow horns ISIS
Worm is two times circled by old hound disregarding master LYTTA
Dense, often dark loaf made using secale cereale rye bread
Benbecula, Eriskay and Taransay, for example Western Isles
2011 Steven Spielberg computer-animated film featuring a character created by cartoonist Hergé The Adventures of Tintin
“Pray ye dutifully prime / Your matin chime, ye ringers / May ye beautifully rime / Your evetime song, ye singers” (____) Ding Dong Merrily On High
“Britain’s 2012 relay coach hands over ____” (2011 The Times sport headline, about a resignation) BATON
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of ____, of most excellent fancy” (Shakespeare) Infinite Jest
____ cards, which show one of five different symbols, have been used in experiments about ESP ZENER
Nine-pillared building neatly seen ENNEASTYLE
Notorious mimic’s dull and standard blah grey parrot
Yankee caravan? One jeering behind it TRAILER
Sweet dessert wine produced near a Sicilian port MARSALA
In chemistry, compounds containing molecules of water or its constituent elements HYDRATES
Roman God whose Greek counterpart is Pan SILVANUS
Fish which may be sterlet, ossetra, or sevruga STURGEON
District once described as London’s French quarter SOHO