The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Old synonym for “lifted” or “removed”, now only used in an idiomatic phrase HOIST
1975 trucking song featuring Rubber Duck CONVOY
A Sundance Film Festival entry, typically INDIE
LONG (FOR) YEARN
Idiomatic phrase about extinction, used in Piers Plowman (c. 1370) dead as a doornail
A roadside cafe, colloquially GREASY SPOON
France’s longest river LOIRE
The name of TS Eliot’s Old Gumbie Cat JENNYANYDOTS
Canada’s national summer sport LACROSSE
Ceres and Pluto are ____ planets DWARF
____ played James T Kirk in several Star Trek films (2009-2016) Chris Pine
“Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain foiled again
Real name of rapper Puff Daddy Sean Combs
Fictional collie created in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight LASSIE
The “Adulterous”, “Placemakers’” and “Sin on” ____ were named after printing errors BIBLES
The Scuderia Ferrari team’s home racing circuit IMOLA
Books which are sold off cheaply REMAINDERS
That which may colloquially be called a posse ENTOURAGE
Hoarding secretly STASHING
1960 Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medallist Cassius Clay
The ____ is an English language newspaper published in India since 1875 STATESMAN
Device typically used for a dial-up internet service MODEM
The muse of comedy THALIA
Alistair ____ wrote Ice Station Zebra MACLEAN
Heraldic body located on Queen Victoria Street, London college of arms
“Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart ____ a mystery” (Tennyson) FOREBODES