The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 04 14

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Flat-bottomed barge used to transport freight SCOW
Toy involved in a 1950s craze; a potato and maize crisp hula hoop
The beginning of Act 1 CURTAIN UP
Egyptian god seen as a protector of graves and cemeteries ANUBIS
Soul singer who released Your Love is King in 1984 SADE
Of wood, being dense or compact in nature close-grained
Weasel-like animals formerly called foulmarts POLECATS
Formal term for gullets OESOPHAGI
First novel in Sue Grafton’s Alphabet mystery series A Is For Alibi
American term for mixed spirit served in a tall glass HIGHBALL
People who are very passionate about a cause FIREBRANDS
Device used to transfer people in nautical emergencies breeches-buoy
Roy Orbison song lip-synched to by Dean Stockwell in David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet In Dreams
1980s sitcom starring Judy Dench and Michael Williams A Fine Romance
A form of social welfare first paid on January 1, 1909 old age pension
Letters which replaced ROMA on coins in about AUC 674 SPQR
Music award once won but declined by Sinead O’Connor GRAMMY
In Kantian philosophy, a sense of direct perception ANSCHAUUNG
Garment named after an atomic test site, because of its imagined explosive effect BIKINI