The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
To dim (one’s eyes) BLEAR
Womble named after a Siberian city TOMSK
One name for a major pest sewer rat
Alex ____ replaced Jonny Bairstow in England’s 2022 T20 world cup squad HALES
Portuguese song genre, featured in a 2023 BBC Prom FADO
Series which included Nuts in May and Abigail’s Party Play for Today
Greater Manchester town where Reebok had its headquarters until 1984 BOLTON
The mineral pitchblende is a form of ____ dioxide URANIUM
Resin secreted by an Asian bug SHELLAC
American shock rock band founded in 1973 KISS
1957 Beckett play set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland ENDGAME
John Updike novel, filmed in 1987 The Witches of Eastwick
Rhyming slang expression of incredulity would you Adam and Eve it
Areas of rough water created by opposing currents tide rips
J ____, senator for Arkansas 1945-74, founded a prestigious scholarship programme William Fulbright
Two pages of Series B UK passports show Anish ____’s work KAPOOR
High-value coin often mentioned in pirate fiction DOUBLOON
In road travel, a possible result of a leaky valve slow puncture
Someone acting in a consciously independent way UNILATERALIST
The literary pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans GEORGE ELIOT
THE MUSE OF HISTORY CLIO
____ was a spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show RHODA
Upton ____’s 1906 book The Jungle was about meat-packing workers, but created more concern about food safety SINCLAIR
Jess ____’s decision to go “on t’road” starts JB Priestley’s The Good Companions OAKROYD
Lollipop-sucking detective of 1970s TV KOJAK