The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 07 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Petty gangster or ruffian HOODLUM
A British state school’s year includes five ____s inset day
Argued; propelled a boat ROWED
Midlands town where Jensen cars were made, 1935-76 West Bromwich
Choreographer and director of West End musicals, and a Strictly judge 2004-2008 Arlene Phillips
Located in Port Charlotte, one of Islay’s nine distilleries bruichladdich
Unfair use of power to benefit or employ family or friends NEPOTISM
Dancer who has appeared in every Strictly series and is now a judge Anton du Beke
Non-technical name for urticaria NETTLE RASH
A FIXED NUMBER OF VERSE LINES FORMING A UNIT OF A POEM STANZA
Excessive refinement NICETY
Irish singer-songwriter whose Orinoco Flow was a No 1 hit in 1988 ENYA
Kiln for drying hops, especially in Kent Oast house
Currency used in Liberia, Namibia or Taiwan, for instance DOLLARS
Pruned tidily; adorned TRIMMED
Joe Root’s successor as England Test cricket captain BEN STOKES
“Is […] bad treatment ever given to a person? / No, it is always ____ out” (Flann O’Brien’s Myles na gCopaleen Catechism of Cliché) METED
English ballerina who became a Strictly judge in 2012 Darcey Bussell
Head judge in Strictly Come Dancing, 2004-2016 Len Goodman