The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Subject of airline etiquette discussion ARMREST
Surname of baseball’s “Sultan of Swat” RUTH
Technical term for a living organism BIONT
The coloured rings of irises AREOLAE
The parasitic flatworm Fasciola hepatica liver fluke
Town near Salisbury where carpets were made for about 250 years until 1995 WILTON
US series of programmes and reforms which started in 1933 NEW DEAL
____ Sky was Elton John’s 1969 debut album EMPTY
Sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler The Thin Blue Line
Shane Warne and Anil Kumble were notable ____s leg spinner
Polish footballer who scored 19 goals for Arsenal (2012-2015) Lukas Podolski
Pink single released in September 2002 Family Portrait
Pertaining to wedlock MARITAL
Pertaining to prescribed drugs PHARMACEUTICAL
Novel character portrayed by Vivien Leigh in 1939 Scarlett O'Hara
L’épouse d’un roi REINE
Kneading technique used in massage petrissage
Gullets, in anatomy OESOPHAGI
French architect who designed Federal City (later Washington DC) Pierre Charles L'Enfant
English electronics manufacturer bought out by Philips in 1976 PYE
Dame ____ was MI5’s first female director general Stella Rimington
Composer of Limp Preludes for a Dog Erik Satie
Collective noun for monkeys TROOP
Bird whose name refers to its large bill GROSBEAK
A conservative shot in golf and an easy one in basketball lay-up
1977 comedy film based on The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark Nasty Habits
“True ease in writing comes from ____, not chance” (Alexander Pope) ART
#001 in Pokémon’s monster index bulbasaur