The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Ursa Minor’s old name CYNOSURE
Departments or provinces of Greece nomarchies
Name for a flamboyant fashion/pop style coined by musician Richard Burgess NEW ROMANTIC
Historically, extra weight added to some goods purchases to compensate for wastage in transit TRET
From effect to cause A POSTERIORI
The capital of Belgium’s Flemish Brabant province leuven
Gas typically used in welding ACETYLENE
Spicy creole dish; a Hank Williams song of 1952 JAMBALAYA
That waged between Britain and China 1839-42 Opium War
Prime Minister succeeded by Margaret Thatcher James Callaghan
Drawn from wide-ranging sources ECLECTIC
To leave a position or, hyphenated, to join one again RESIGN
Ornamental evergreen shrub native to New Zealand HEBE
The target ball in bowls JACK
Sweet dried chilli peppers ANCHOS
The only woman to have an instrumental UK No 1 hit Winifred Atwell
Small bottle whose name may derive from Arabic for “draw water” CARAFE
A canal used exclusively for leisure craft cruiseway
A conspicuous blunder; a TV woollen extraterrestrial CLANGER
Type of daisy which is also called marguerite ox-eye
Someone from Ljubljana or Maribor SLOVENE
The “Grand Old Man” of cricket W G Grace
The name of four English rivers OUSE
Formerly, a junior boy scout WOLF CUB
Measuring device attached to an inverted bottle of spirits OPTIC