The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 04 07

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