The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Vessel for a shaken and not stirred cocktail? Martini glass
Relatively easy to put on over your head slip-over
Like stilettos, for example high-heeled
One who makes an opposing statement contradictor
Most rushed HASTIEST
The ____ massacre took place at an 1819 rally in Manchester supporting political reform PETERLOO
The Principality of ____ included Perpignan between 1493 and 1659 CATALONIA
Singer who released Hurdy Gurdy Man in 1968 DONOVAN
English art critic who wrote Modern Painters John Ruskin
England goalie involved in a 2023 strip dispute Mary Earps
Dickens bride who lived in Satis House Miss Havisham
Football team who play at Riverside Stadium MIDDLESBROUGH
Modern mechanical puppetry ANIMATRONICS
Tradesperson informally known as a sparky ELECTRICIAN
Three connected rhymed lines in poetry TERCET
1955 Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant as a retired criminal To Catch A Thief
1864 novel by Sheridan Le Fanu, subtitled A Tale of Bartram Haugh Uncle Silas
“____ (dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah)” (Roy Orbison) Only The Lonely
The green cormorant; a type of tobacco SHAG
Informal name for some kinds of delphinium LARKSPUR
Grammatical case expressing ownership POSSESSIVE
Feline owned by Lewis Carroll’s Duchess CHESHIRE CAT
Experience shared by Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump IMPEACHMENT
Central subject of socialite Emily Post’s books ETIQUETTE
Boris Johnson’s optimistic 2019 description of a Brexit deal oven-ready
Animals such as Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes TIGERS
A film lover CINEASTE
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t ____ it” (Mae West) RESIST