The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 04 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
An extemporary line ad-lib
Actress who won Oscars for her roles in La La Land and Poor Things Emma Stone
English captain in 1980s cricket and Shakespeare’s Henry V GOWER
Languages produced by contact between speakers of different languages CREOLES
Pays for service REMUNERATES
Romania’s capital, locally Bucuresti
A law not enforced or no longer observed dead letter
Tony ____ captained Sussex and England in 1970s cricket GREIG
____ played NYPD homicide detective Reynaldo Curtis in four seasons of Law and Order Benjamin Bratt
INVISIBLE EMANATIONS AURAE
A perfect example (Latin) ne plus ultra
An ordnance depot ARSENAL
A pedestrian holidaymaker staying at several locations HOSTELLER
Technical name for a squint STRABISMUS
A pair of spectacles on a handle, used mainly by women when conventional ones were seen as unattractive LORGNETTE
A native of a mountainous landlocked African country RWANDAN
A guaranteed remedy, medically or figuratively MAGIC BULLET
A device very likely to be used by long-distance sailors DESALINATOR
“A ____ only, and a gentleman / Which I have sometime known” (All’s Well That Ends Well) SERVANT
“‘Humour’, he said, ‘is ____ chaos remembered in tranquility’” (James Thurber) EMOTIONAL