Today's The Times Specialist Sunday Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Times Specialist Sunday

(May 26, 2024)

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• 1. A shield-shaped insect emitting a pungent spray - Crossword Clue
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• 5. The Peter Principle states that people within a hierarchy will rise to a level of their own ____ - Crossword Clue
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• 12. As the BBC's Europe correspondent, Damian ____ reported on post-Brexit issues - Crossword Clue
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• 14. The legendary long-standing status of Atlantis - Crossword Clue
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• 15. The increase in drag as a plane approaches 770 mph - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Rule stating that a planet's orbit around a star is roughly twice as long as the next nearest planet's orbit - Crossword Clue
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• 17. In computing, supplementary browser components - Crossword Clue
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• 18. What the first two letters of the acronym Asbo stand for - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Trojan leader and protagonist of a Virgil epic - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Latin term meaning "before birth" - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Celestial body classified in the Morgan-Keenan system - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Subject written about by Discipline writer Alain De Botton - Crossword Clue
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• 29. US president who "could not walk and chew gum at the same time" in a sanitised Lyndon B Johnson quote - Crossword Clue
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• 30. "____ man kills the thing he loves" (Oscar Wilde) - Crossword Clue
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• 31. The nearest city to Europe in any African country - Crossword Clue
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• 33. Forename shared by a world chess champion and a presenter of the quiz show Mastermind - Crossword Clue
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• 36. Singer who had a 1986 No 1 hit with When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going - Crossword Clue
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• 37. African state once led by a self-proclaimed king of Scotland - Crossword Clue
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• 40. Log-growing mushroom often used in oriental cuisine - Crossword Clue
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• 41. "He can have the stuff in the saucepan before you can say ____" (Basil Fawlty in Gourmet Night) - Crossword Clue
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• 43. Country in which Tikal National Park is located - Crossword Clue
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• 44. Former Birmingham City managing director who found television fame as an aide on the BBC's The Apprentice - Crossword Clue
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• 45. Britons Farrell and Niall Treacy compete in this sport - Crossword Clue
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• 46. Petula Clarke's signature song - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. In a poem, Byron called Cromwell "the ____ of usurpers" - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Mythical figure who drowned in the Aegean during an attempt to escape a labyrinthine prison on Crete - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Cannibalistic Indonesian reptile, largest of the lizards - Crossword Clue
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• 4. English band fronted by a co-organizer of Band Aid - Crossword Clue
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• 6. 1922 film in which Max Schreck played Count Orlok - Crossword Clue
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• 7. River that is joined by the Foss in York - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Drug baron who gave himself up after his government had banned extradition of Colombians to the US - Crossword Clue
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• 9. 1996 Alex Garland novel featuring Daffy and Bugs - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Actor who played Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister - Crossword Clue
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• 11. "With this ring I thee wed, [...] and with all my worldly goods I thee ____" (Book of Common Prayer wedding service) - Crossword Clue
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• 13. The only founding member of the Pretenders who is still in the band - Crossword Clue
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• 19. 1978 war film which won Michael Cimino a Best Director Oscar - Crossword Clue
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• 20. ITV's alternative to Blue Peter, which ran from 1968 to 1980 - Crossword Clue
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• 21. "No cause, however just, can warrant the ____ slaughter that is going on" (Mahatma Gandhi, in To Every Briton (1940)) - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Vegetable with a variety called French Breakfast - Crossword Clue
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• 26. DA Pennebaker documentary which follows Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire author - Crossword Clue
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• 32. Scottish author who created Inspector Rebus - Crossword Clue
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• 34. Type of Pacific food fish or type of screwdriver - Crossword Clue
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• 35. Hard cheese from the same region of Spain as Don Quixote - Crossword Clue
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• 38. Old name for an emperor of Japan - Crossword Clue
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• 39. Nationality of 800m runner world record holder David Rudisha - Crossword Clue
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• 40. Thales of Miletus and Solon of Athens were two of Ancient Greece's Seven ____ - Crossword Clue
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• 42. Unit of power equal to 1 joule per second - Crossword Clue
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