The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
EPITHET ADDED TO A NAME, AS IN ALEXANDER THE GREAT AVIGNON
American department store which published the 1939 booklet in which Rudolph the Reindeer first appeared MONTGOMERY WARD
A CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION BAUBLE
GREEK MUSE OF LYRIC POETRY ERATO
FIRMLY FIXED SECURE
RENEWAL OF LICENCE AFTER EXPIRY OR SUSPENSION REACCREDITATION
THE BRANCHES OF THIS SHRUB, COMMON AROUND LOS ANGELES, ARE USED AS CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS CALIFORNIAN HOLLY
In an elaborately decorated style ORNATELY
AN OLD-FASHIONED BRITISH INDICATION OF AGREEMENT RIGHTY HO
COLLECTION OF RHYMES PUBLISHED IN 1744, CONSIDERED THE FIRST VOLUME FOR CHILDREN A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
Prefix indicating multiplication by a billion, or by the 30th power of 2 GIGA
CITY WHICH HAS DONATED THE CHRISTMAS TREE TRAFALGAR SQUARE SINCE 1947 OSLO
ANNUAL THOROUGHBRED RACE HELD AT THE RANDWICK RACECOURSE IN SYDNEY Australian Oaks
YORKSHIRE TOWN WHOSE NEARBY STOCKELD PARK IS NOTED FOR ITS CHRISTMAS ILLUMINATIONS WETHERBY
SINGER WHOSE ONLY CHRISTMAS-THEMED SINGLE WAS DECEMBER WILL BE MAGIC AGAIN, IN 1979 KATE BUSH
KEY TO THE RIGHT OF THE HASH SYMBOL ON A STANDARD UK KEYBOARD ENTER
FAMILY TITLE MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH CHRISTMAS FATHER
DEFICIENT, INADEQUATE SCANTY
CHINESE SYSTEM OF MEDITATIVE PHYSICAL EXERCISE TAI CHI
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS CENTRE AROUND THE JAFFA AREA OF THIS ISRAELI CITY TEL AVIV
FESTIVAL FOR WHICH JINGLE BELLS WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN THANKSGIVING
HAVING AN APPEARANCE CONSIDERED SUITABLE FOR TV TELEGENIC
HOW CHRISTMAS PUDDING IS OFTEN SERVED FLAMBE
HOW A FEMALE SHOPPER MAY BE ADDRESSED MADAM
THE ____ WAS A GIFT FROM FRANCE TO THE USA, DEDICATED IN 1886 STATUE OF LIBERTY
SACRAMENT COMMEMORATING THE LAST SUPPER EUCHARIST
A TREAD AND A ____ CONSTITUTE A STEP RISER
IRISH POET WHO WROTE LYRICS FOR THE MINSTREL BOY AND THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER THOMAS MOORE
STAGE NAME OF THE FLEMISH SINGER ESTHER LAMBRECHTS La Esterella
DOCUMENT LISTING GOODS AND THE AMOUNT DUE FOR PAYMENT INVOICE
From Yiddish, a female gossip or busybody YENTA
Narrow strips connecting larger land areas ISTHMI
Tenzin Gyatso’s title DALAI LAMA
Wealthy, derived from the Latin for “flow towards” AFFLUENT
Italy’s “Christmas Witch”, with a similar role to Santa Claus La Befana
Frank Sinatra played the eponymous detective in this 1967 film Tony Rome
Creator of Rip Van Winkle and the idea of Santa’s flying sleigh WASHINGTON IRVING
Colombia’s most capped goalkeeper and the only one with a clean sheet in a Copa America competition (in 2001) OSCAR CORDOBA
Any of the Gilbert and Sullivan works originally presented by the D’Oyly Carte company SAVOY OPERA
American equivalent of a unit trust MUTUAL FUND
Aden Gillett plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the ____’s current production of A Christmas Carol Royal Shakespeare Company
The ____ features Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding Mighty Boosh
William Makepeace Thackeray’s “novel without a hero” VANITY FAIR
____ dos Santos Aveiro plays for Juventus and Portugal CRISTIANO RONALDO
2009 Pat Holden film about a firm of Tranmere Rovers fans AWAYDAYS
“Tony Blair speaks with a passion as yet ____ by the cynicism of office” (The Scotsman, in 1997) UNMUTILATED
“Scintillate” shares an etymological origin with this Christmas decoration TINSEL
“I strive to be brief, and I become ____” (Horace) OBSCURE
Scottish singer who appeared in the Morrisons 2007 Christmas advertising campaign LULU
Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile SANTOLINA
COLLOQUIALLY, EDIBLE PRODUCE FROM GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOURCES FRANKENSTEIN FOOD
Short-necked jars of ancient Greece STAMNOI
Actress who played Sally in When Harry Met Sally … MEG RYAN
Creator of the “gentleman detective” Roderick Alleyn NGAIO MARSH
In words attributed to Lord Acton, “All power corrupts … and absolute power is even ____” NICER
The maple genus ACER