The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 11 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Royal Troon’s famous very short hole POSTAGE STAMP
Original rank of Nyota Uhura in Star Trek LIEUTENANT
____ share male ancestry AGNATES
Ban (someone) from participation in church sacraments EXCOMMUNICATE
Bacterium which is spherical or nearly so COCCUS
Cleaning or purifying process using vapour FUMIGATION
A design, especially one used as part of a pattern MOTIF
See 24D NINE
A former French title for a clergyman ABBE
Holiday accommodation which includes self-catering flats APARTOTEL
BBC Two documentary series, aired 1965-82, about a wide range of people MAN ALIVE
Spreaders of opinion via social media TWITTERATI
“Extinct” order of fish, until an Indian Ocean find in 1938 COELACANTH
The short form of a fancy word for “smelly” ODIFEROUS
Daisy Ashford wrote The ____ when she was 5D, and it was mostly unchanged when published 28 years later Young Visiters
1/1 EVENS
In Microsoft Word 2019, Gigi, Broadway or Playbill TYPEFACE
Source of power introduced by America’s Eveready company in 1907 AA batteries
“A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an ____ political cartoon look like?’” (Salman Rushdie) INOFFENSIVE
An old-fashioned sweet pudding; insincere compliments FLUMMERY
The storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights SCHEHERAZADE
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
Singapore prison; a Second World War PoW camp nearby changi
Informally, a former furniture retailer in London’s Tottenham Court Road MAPLES
Things which are mysterious, or meant for a tiny audience ESOTERICA
An elevated but static trot in dressage PIAFFE
To behave badly ACT UP
“____ me, my sweet ____able you” (Ira Gershwin) EMBRACE
Distilling apparatus formerly used by alchemists ALEMBIC
The new role of Dolly Alderton in our Style supplement AGONY AUNT
Shirley ____, who admitted to occasional cigarette-smoking, won Olympic 100m hurdles silver in 1984 STRONG