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

Clues & Answers For The Times Specialist Sunday

(November 17, 2024)

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• 1. Actor who often asked "would you like a jelly baby?" in his first big TV role - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Germanic deity after whom a weekday is named in English but not German - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Informal name for a run-down cinema - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Golden Globe winner for her role as Susan Mayer in <i>Desperate Housewives</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 14. The Second Battle of ____ in 1942 was described by Churchill as "perhaps, the end of the beginning" - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Country ruled by the Jagiellonian dynasty, 1386-1572 - Crossword Clue
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• 16. "Sometimes people call me an ____. Well, that is the way I know I am an American" (Woodrow Wilson) - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Aldous Huxley's <i>The ____ of Perception </i>described psychedelic experiences created by taking mescalin - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Adjective describing something measured in nanometres - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Businessman who tried to buy Harrods in the mid-1980s - Crossword Clue
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• 22. "The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as ____" (Robert Morley) - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Beeswax and paraffin wax may be used to make things ____ - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Cocktail which gained global fame thanks to a 1979 hit by Rupert Holmes - Crossword Clue
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• 30. George Wilkins may have written around half of this Shakespeare play - Crossword Clue
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• 33. Tom Cruise starred in the 2003 epic period drama <i>The </i>____ - Crossword Clue
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• 35. The Co Londonderry towns of Portrush, Portstewart and ____ are often known as The Triangle - Crossword Clue
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• 37. Stress of rhythm or metre - Crossword Clue
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• 39. Robert Louis Stevenson's 1893 sequel to <i>Kidnapped</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 40. Widely grown early ripening red grape variety - Crossword Clue
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• 42. Group of people on the fringes of respectable society - Crossword Clue
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• 43. A low-cut neckline - Crossword Clue
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• 45. Chirac, ____, Hollande - Crossword Clue
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• 46. Company whose Dreamcast was the first sixth-generation video game console - Crossword Clue
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• 47. Impairment or loss of the power of voluntary movement - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Informally, a member of the Paridae family of passerine birds - Crossword Clue
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• 2. "The Beast" on ITV's <i>The Chase</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 3. US singer and actress, named after an African Empire - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Russian-born artist and designer, mainly in art deco style - Crossword Clue
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• 6. One name for <i>Quercus petraea, </i>Ireland's national tree - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Of Scottish origin, a children's game involving guessing which hand contains something - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Blackletter font often called "the German typeface" - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Dutch word for "moose", more widely a large kind of antelope - Crossword Clue
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• 10. ____s, are extinct reptiles, the first vertebrates known to have developed powered flight - Crossword Clue
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• 11. The <i>Angel of the North </i>is in this urban area - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson's early 1980s stage act - Crossword Clue
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• 15. A ___ is supposed to be capitalised on an envelope - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Relating to the work of a referee, or a negotiator - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Pale type of chicory, also called "Belgian endive" - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Something that should be reported to the CAA - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Sixth and final operatic collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Crossword Clue
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• 25. The frame of a window (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Skeleton racer who was the sole British medallist at the 2010 Winter Olympics - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Mammal which, despite its name, is in the squirrel family - Crossword Clue
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• 31. Country (capital Dili) with a tautological name - Crossword Clue
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• 32. The Seven Sisters of astronomy - Crossword Clue
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• 34. Form of speech seen as affected imitation of an urban dialect - Crossword Clue
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• 36. Boarding school whose motto "Honneur auix dignes" seems to imitate "Floreat Etona" - Crossword Clue
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• 38. This helpful creature appeared in <i>Li'l Abner </i>cartoons for a short time but inspired clubs and merchandise in 1950s America - Crossword Clue
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• 41. Anti-aircraft fire or, informally, severe criticism - Crossword Clue
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• 44. Abbreviation for what is in effect spacewalking - Crossword Clue
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