The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 22

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