Today's The Times Specialist Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Times Specialist

(December 23, 2024)

ACROSS

• 1. Christmas song featuring the lines: "Gaily they ring, While people sing" - Crossword Clue
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• 9. First home secretary to serve under Theresa May - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Magazine for pre-teen girls, published from 1958 to 2001 - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Plant whose seeds are used to make tahini paste - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Christian festival celebrated on January 6 - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Bone at the spine's base - Crossword Clue
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• 15. West Yorkshire city named the 2025 UK City of Culture - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Scottish writer whose play Quality Street inspired the confectionery brand - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Wild cards in games such as canasta - Crossword Clue
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• 21. --- Merrily on High, popular Christmas hymn - Crossword Clue
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• 23. 1516 work by Thomas More - Crossword Clue
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• 26. City located east of 15A - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Interview show whose notable guests included Muhammad Ali and Billy Connolly - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Musical centrepiece of The Snowman - Crossword Clue
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• 1. The Oaks or the Derby, eg - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Puzzle featuring a series of images to be deciphered - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Post that Dick Whittington occupied in London - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Number of calling birds in The Twelve Days of Christmas - Crossword Clue
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• 5. London green space where festive swimmers race annually in the Serpentine - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Complex form of jazz music - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Easternmost of the Canary Islands - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Lynyrd ---, US rock band whose hits include Sweet Home Alabama - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Type of raised projection at the back of a shoe - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Worcestershire spa town - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba - Crossword Clue
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• 18. British actor in the seasonal romance film The Holiday - Crossword Clue
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• 20. William ---, Star Trek and Boston Legal actor - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Kiran ---, Indian author of The Inheritance of Loss - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Title of high-ranking officials in the Ottoman Empire - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Architect who designed St Paul's Cathedral - Crossword Clue
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