The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Departments or provinces of Greece nomarchies
Name for a flamboyant fashion/pop style coined by musician Richard Burgess NEW ROMANTIC
Ursa Minor’s old name CYNOSURE
Small bottle whose name may derive from Arabic for “draw water” CARAFE
A conspicuous blunder; a TV woollen extraterrestrial CLANGER
A canal used exclusively for leisure craft cruiseway
Type of daisy which is also called marguerite ox-eye
The only woman to have an instrumental UK No 1 hit Winifred Atwell
The “Grand Old Man” of cricket W G Grace
Someone from Ljubljana or Maribor SLOVENE
Sweet dried chilli peppers ANCHOS
Historically, extra weight added to some goods purchases to compensate for wastage in transit TRET
Drawn from wide-ranging sources ECLECTIC
To leave a position or, hyphenated, to join one again RESIGN
The target ball in bowls JACK
Ornamental evergreen shrub native to New Zealand HEBE
Prime Minister succeeded by Margaret Thatcher James Callaghan
From effect to cause A POSTERIORI
Gas typically used in welding ACETYLENE
Measuring device attached to an inverted bottle of spirits OPTIC
Formerly, a junior boy scout WOLF CUB
The name of four English rivers OUSE
That waged between Britain and China 1839-42 Opium War
Spicy creole dish; a Hank Williams song of 1952 JAMBALAYA
The capital of Belgium’s Flemish Brabant province leuven