The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
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
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
Idiomatic phrase about extinction, used in Piers Plowman (c. 1370) dead as a doornail
LONG (FOR) YEARN
A roadside cafe, colloquially GREASY SPOON
The Scuderia Ferrari team’s home racing circuit IMOLA
“Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart ____ a mystery” (Tennyson) FOREBODES
Heraldic body located on Queen Victoria Street, London college of arms
Ceres and Pluto are ____ planets DWARF
The “Adulterous”, “Placemakers’” and “Sin on” ____ were named after printing errors BIBLES
Fictional collie created in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight LASSIE
“Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain foiled again
____ played James T Kirk in several Star Trek films (2009-2016) Chris Pine
Real name of rapper Puff Daddy Sean Combs
That which may colloquially be called a posse ENTOURAGE
Books which are sold off cheaply REMAINDERS
France’s longest river LOIRE
The name of TS Eliot’s Old Gumbie Cat JENNYANYDOTS
Canada’s national summer sport LACROSSE
Hoarding secretly STASHING
1960 Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medallist Cassius Clay