The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“The wife, where danger or ____ lurks, / Safest and seemliest by her husband stays” (Paradise Lost) DISHONOUR
UPPER ARM BONES HUMERI
____, Sweet Charlotte (1964) featured Mary Astor in her final film role Hush Hush
Salad greens related to chicory ENDIVES
Church festival celebrated on January 6 EPIPHANY
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open ____ and die.” (Mel Brooks) SEWER
Actress who first appeared as Sharon Watts in EastEnders in 1985 Letitia Dean
Old name for a painter of portraits or miniatures LIMNER
What absolute power does absolutely, according to Lord Acton CORRUPTS
A decree, from Latin for “let it be done” FIAT
Tool typically used to fix or remove spark plugs box spanner
In camping, ____ are supported by poles or frames at each end ridge tents
In Bleak House, ____ secretly marries Richard Carstone Ada Clare
The BBC’s chief news correspondent, 1989-2003 Kate Adie
Forerunners of electric refrigerators ICEBOXES
Prime minister of Canada, 1968-79 and 1980-84 PIERRE TRUDEAU
Of a court case, rejected DISMISSED
A policeman or police force, from a PC created by Enid Blyton PLOD
The inner peel of a citrus fruit PITH
Iceland’s “ring road”, Route 1, was partly ____ until 2019 UNPAVED
A wine connoisseur OENOPHILE
Capital of Italy’s Umbria region PERUGIA
The imprisoned banker in The Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne
A continuous discharge of firearms FUSILLADE
In binomial nomenclature, “sempervirens” denotes ____ plants EVERGREEN
The bobcat is a type of ____ LYNX
Device which amplifies microwaves MASER
Singer who made her film acting debut in The Bodyguard Whitney Houston
What Caesar reportedly said after his Pontic campaign VENI VIDI VICI
Tony ____ was Spandau Ballet’s lead singer HADLEY
Breed of horse often used in dressage and show jumping WESTPHALIAN
Not subjected to hindrance UNIMPEDED
The USA’s second largest state TEXAS