The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 11 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Cleaning or purifying process using vapour FUMIGATION
Things which are mysterious, or meant for a tiny audience ESOTERICA
Informally, a former furniture retailer in London’s Tottenham Court Road MAPLES
Singapore prison; a Second World War PoW camp nearby changi
An elevated but static trot in dressage PIAFFE
Of a person, having a large solid body HEAVYSET
A photon books in at a hotel. Receptionist: Do you have any luggage? Photon: No, I’m ____ travelling light
BBC Two documentary series, aired 1965-82, about a wide range of people MAN ALIVE
1/1 EVENS
Daisy Ashford wrote The ____ when she was 5D, and it was mostly unchanged when published 28 years later Young Visiters
Spreaders of opinion via social media TWITTERATI
The short form of a fancy word for “smelly” ODIFEROUS
“Extinct” order of fish, until an Indian Ocean find in 1938 COELACANTH
Shirley ____, who admitted to occasional cigarette-smoking, won Olympic 100m hurdles silver in 1984 STRONG
To behave badly ACT UP
“____ me, my sweet ____able you” (Ira Gershwin) EMBRACE
The new role of Dolly Alderton in our Style supplement AGONY AUNT
Distilling apparatus formerly used by alchemists ALEMBIC
The storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights SCHEHERAZADE
In Microsoft Word 2019, Gigi, Broadway or Playbill TYPEFACE
An old-fashioned sweet pudding; insincere compliments FLUMMERY
“A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an ____ political cartoon look like?’” (Salman Rushdie) INOFFENSIVE
Source of power introduced by America’s Eveready company in 1907 AA batteries
Holiday accommodation which includes self-catering flats APARTOTEL
A design, especially one used as part of a pattern MOTIF
See 24D NINE
A former French title for a clergyman ABBE
Bacterium which is spherical or nearly so COCCUS
Ban (someone) from participation in church sacraments EXCOMMUNICATE
Royal Troon’s famous very short hole POSTAGE STAMP
Original rank of Nyota Uhura in Star Trek LIEUTENANT
____ share male ancestry AGNATES