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

Clues & Answers For The Times Specialist Sunday

(December 8, 2024)

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• 1. Creature said to grin long before it appeared in fiction - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Ken Morse had many credits as a specialised TV ____ - Crossword Clue
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• 12. She won best actress Oscars for <i>Gaslight</i> and <i>Anastasia</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Passer as a genus in the bird family Passeridae is Latin for ____ - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Gerrymandering is manipulation of ____ district boundaries - Crossword Clue
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• 15. A poker variant akin to Texas hold 'em - Crossword Clue
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• 16. French name for a (pencil) rubber; a syrup used to sweeten cocktails - Crossword Clue
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• 17. 1967-76 TV police series starring Raymond Burr - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Someone likely to be a Hooray Henry's wife or girlfriend - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Yellowish-buff coloured fabric, popular in Regency times - Crossword Clue
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• 23. PP ____ had a 1967 hit with <i>The First Cut is the Deepest</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 25. ____ <i>Scissorhands</i> is a 1990 gothic fantasy film - Crossword Clue
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• 27. The world of impoverished hacks, from an old name for a London location - Crossword Clue
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• 28. The capital city of Alabama - Crossword Clue
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• 31. Mountainous area, resting place of Noah's ark in Genesis - Crossword Clue
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• 33. 1985 dark fantasy film by Ridley Scott starring Tom Cruise - Crossword Clue
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• 34. When stairs are "apples", hats are "____" - Crossword Clue
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• 37. A perception problem, technically "congenital amusia" - Crossword Clue
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• 39. A prop often used by circus entertainers - Crossword Clue
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• 42. Road and racing car marque founded by Colin Chapman - Crossword Clue
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• 43. The kingdom of Dahomey was in part of this present-day African country - Crossword Clue
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• 44. The city which is home to the Grand Ole Opry - Crossword Clue
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• 46. Boxer Sugar Ray ____ won the undisputed world welterweight title in 1981 - Crossword Clue
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• 47. Pioneering helpline which answered its first telephone call in November 1953 - Crossword Clue
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• 48. The middle name of novelist William Thackeray - Crossword Clue
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• 49. A train on the ____ Railway arrives here after running about 60 miles north from Williams, Arizona - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Underground London theatre used by the BBC in the Blitz - Crossword Clue
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• 2. ____ painted <i>The Burial of the Count of Orgaz</i> (1588) - Crossword Clue
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• 3. "For 'tis the sport to have the engineer / ____ with his own petard" (<i>Hamlet</i>) - Crossword Clue
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• 4. American actor whose character Travis Bickle said "You talkin' to me?" - Crossword Clue
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• 5. <i>The Bletchley</i> ____ is a TV series about former code-breakers - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Cocktail of gin, lemon juice, sugar and soda water - Crossword Clue
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• 7. A musical composition intended to be sung - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Loire valley wine made from Melon de Bourgogne grapes - Crossword Clue
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• 9. A military unit operating behind the main force - Crossword Clue
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• 10. She has more mentions in the Bible than some apostles - Crossword Clue
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• 11. A hit single taken from U2's 1983 album <i>War</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 18. The Spanish ____ in Rome is a popular tourist site - Crossword Clue
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• 20. A hardwood obtained from a tropical African tree - Crossword Clue
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• 22. A computer structure with connected nodes, imitating the human brain - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Insurance and re-insurance body which started in a 17th-century coffee house - Crossword Clue
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• 26. The least populated borough of New York City - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Mikaela Shiffrin won Olympic gold in this event in 2018 - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Device legally required for serving gin, rum, vodka and whisky in UK pubs since 1963 - Crossword Clue
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• 30. The response to "Say my name" in a <i>Breaking Bad </i>episode - Crossword Clue
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• 32. Visual signalling device typically used for Morse code - Crossword Clue
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• 35. Adlai ____ was American ambassador to the UN, 1961-65 - Crossword Clue
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• 36. Asian kingdom whose official language is Khmer - Crossword Clue
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• 38. <i>No, No,</i> ____ is a musical featuring the song <i>Tea For Two</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 40. Canadian city that holds an annual event called the <i>Stampede</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 41. Turkish city whose old name is a word for a fabric made from rabbit or goat hair - Crossword Clue
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• 45. ... and there it is, in France! - Crossword Clue
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