The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The real surname of Mark Twain CLEMENS
The capital of Laos VIENTIANE
Star Wars character voiced by Frank Oz YODA
Preservative substance made from wood tar or coal tar CREOSOTE
Long-tailed monkey which resembles a squirrel MARMOSET
____ won eight grand slam titles but not Wimbledon IVAN LENDL
Tissue swellings caused by serous fluid (US spelling) EDEMAS
The UK’s 1980s answer to Apple as a significant computer brand APRICOT
Originally American old term for a percussionist in a jazz or dance band trap drummer
The atomic number of nitrogen SEVEN
BBC1 children’s observation game show, 1970-84 Screen Test
Actor who played villain Hans Gruber in Die Hard Alan Rickman
Red Dwarf character played by Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge HOLLY
FINISHED THROUGH
1976 live double album by Mike Harding One Man Show
Launched at high speed CATAPULTED
“Small showers last long, but sudden ____ are short” (Shakespeare in Richard II) STORMS
Ice skating move named after ____ Paulsen AXEL
“'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as ____” (Robert Morley) The natives are waiters
French-based name for a private viewing of paintings before public exhibition VERNISSAGE
Eye inflammations known medically as hordeola STYES
City in which Marks & Spencer started as a market stall LEEDS
Norway’s second female prime minister, in office 2013-2021 ERNA SOLBERG
A person in a “body suit” has many ____ TATTOOS
Mr ____ is Captain Hook’s boatswain in Peter Pan SMEE
“I believe”, archaically or jocularly METHINKS
A frequently metaphorical speaker’s platform SOAPBOX
1970s board game whose box featured amateur models Bill Woodward and Cecilia Fung MASTERMIND