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

Clues & Answers For The Times Specialist Sunday

(January 5, 2025)

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• 1. Cotton fabric named after the Indian city from which it originally came - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Based on French, a Scottish name for a small cup - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Sows, cows etc - Crossword Clue
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• 13. The amateur playwright of <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 14. A ____ system for fire prevention was installed in London's Theatre Royal in 1812 - Crossword Clue
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• 15. "I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of ____" (Shaw, <i>Mrs Warren's Profession</i>) - Crossword Clue
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• 17. City in Wyoming, the name of a 1960s TV western series - Crossword Clue
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• 19. The world's only country named after an element - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Martin Lewis Perl won the 1995 Nobel physics prize for discovering this type of lepton - Crossword Clue
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• 21. The Terracotta Army can be seen in this Chinese city - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Bestowal of the right to vote - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Commentator who said "For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip" - Crossword Clue
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• 25. The living part of a cell - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Dog first bred in Scotland, by Sir Dudley Marjoribanks - Crossword Clue
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• 30. Mineral with a hardness of 1 on the Mohs scale - Crossword Clue
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• 31. A bristle-like appendage on plants like barley - Crossword Clue
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• 32. "Youth Demand is a newly launched group that is calling for an arms ____ Israel" (The Times, April 2024) - Crossword Clue
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• 34. Frederick ____ wrote <i>The Day of the Jackal</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 36. Clive Smith played Richard, the long-suffering husband in this 1990s BBC TV sitcom - Crossword Clue
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• 40. An outbreak of this disease led to a six-day suspension of UK racing meetings in February 2019 - Crossword Clue
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• 41. Actor known for happy-go-lucky roles in films of the 1950s and 1960s - Crossword Clue
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• 42. Ann-____, born in 44A, played Tommy's mother in the 1975 musical film - Crossword Clue
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• 43. Morning prayer canticle in many traditional church services - Crossword Clue
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• 44. ____' capital city is built on 14 islands linked by 57 bridges - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. The temple of Jupiter in ancient Rome - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Approximately 1.75 pints - Crossword Clue
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• 3. President of 19A for most of the 1990s - Crossword Clue
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• 5. To invalidate, as a marriage - Crossword Clue
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• 6. The only tennis player to win a singles Grand Slam played on clay, grass and hard courts - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Liverpool Street station was built as a new London terminus of the Great ____ Railway - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Eluned Morgan is the current ____ - Crossword Clue
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• 9. The <i>Memorial to the Missing</i> in Ypres, Belgium - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Woodland plant also known as May bells - Crossword Clue
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• 11. British island where tractors are the only motor vehicles - Crossword Clue
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• 12. ____ was replaced by Income Support in 1988 - Crossword Clue
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• 16. The Latin phrase "____ in parvo" is the motto of Rutland - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Theologian who wrote the first version of the <i>Serenity Prayer</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 19. "A moral, sensible, and well-bred man / Will not ____ me, and no other can" (Cowper, <i>Conversation</i>) - Crossword Clue
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• 23. 1936 jazz standard by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington, featured in the 2014 film <i>Whiplash</i> - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Only living member of the Panthera genus which is native to the Americas - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Portrayer of Chewbacca in the <i>Star Wars</i> films - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Camped without a tent - Crossword Clue
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• 29. "This year's final was an ____. The other four finalists were all over 20 years younger than I am." (The Times, quoting Mark Goodliffe, its Crossword Championship winner in 2024) - Crossword Clue
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• 33. The paintings of Georges ____ (1871-1958) combined elements of fauvism and expressionism - Crossword Clue
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• 35. Barack Obama's middle name - Crossword Clue
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• 37. Much snow is visible in this children's TV series produced in Switzerland - Crossword Clue
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• 38. An often very short railway line connecting two others - Crossword Clue
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• 39. Russian city once called Molotov; a hairstyle - Crossword Clue
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