The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
FINISHED THROUGH
Preservative substance made from wood tar or coal tar CREOSOTE
The atomic number of nitrogen SEVEN
The capital of Laos VIENTIANE
The real surname of Mark Twain CLEMENS
The UK’s 1980s answer to Apple as a significant computer brand APRICOT
Tissue swellings caused by serous fluid (US spelling) EDEMAS
Mr ____ is Captain Hook’s boatswain in Peter Pan SMEE
Long-tailed monkey which resembles a squirrel MARMOSET
Ice skating move named after ____ Paulsen AXEL
French-based name for a private viewing of paintings before public exhibition VERNISSAGE
Red Dwarf character played by Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge HOLLY
Eye inflammations known medically as hordeola STYES
City in which Marks & Spencer started as a market stall LEEDS
A person in a “body suit” has many ____ TATTOOS
A frequently metaphorical speaker’s platform SOAPBOX
1970s board game whose box featured amateur models Bill Woodward and Cecilia Fung MASTERMIND
“Small showers last long, but sudden ____ are short” (Shakespeare in Richard II) STORMS
“I believe”, archaically or jocularly METHINKS
Star Wars character voiced by Frank Oz YODA
“'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as ____” (Robert Morley) The natives are waiters
1976 live double album by Mike Harding One Man Show
Actor who played villain Hans Gruber in Die Hard Alan Rickman
BBC1 children’s observation game show, 1970-84 Screen Test
Originally American old term for a percussionist in a jazz or dance band trap drummer
____ won eight grand slam titles but not Wimbledon IVAN LENDL
Norway’s second female prime minister, in office 2013-2021 ERNA SOLBERG
Launched at high speed CATAPULTED