The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 22

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