The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Music or dance performance during an interval of a drama ENTR'ACTE
Len McCluskey has been ____’s general secretary since 2011 UNITE
Choux pastry ball, often containing a form of cream PROFITEROLE
US poet whose life’s work is collected in Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Destructive monster created from parts of corpses FRANKENSTEIN
The US-based retailer ____ R Us closed its UK stores in 2018 TOYS
Newcastle’s Town ____ is a large common MOOR
The character also called solidus or slash OBLIQUE
English artist William ____ painted The Sirens and Ulysses ETTY
ITV police drama which ran from 1984 to 2010 The Bill
Controlling sinister character in George du Maurier’s Trilby SVENGALI
Character actor Roy ___ was in David Frost’s TW3 team KINNEAR
Pat ____ lost Wimbledon singles finals in 2000 and 2001 RAFTER
ORDAINED MINISTERS CLERGY
Guidance on behaviour or conduct COUNSEL
Long narrow pillow BOLSTER
____ played Sharon Watts in EastEnders Letitia Dean
Alternative name for what Jimmy Carter’s family farmed Monkey nuts
Conifers whose wood was used in English longbows YEW TREES
Descriptive of Thomas Hardy’s Jude OBSCURE
This is often called a “World’s Fair” in American usage EXPO
Kentish “isle” which is not an island THANET
Musician like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Fats Domino or Oscar Peterson PIANIST
A Cuba ____ is a rum cocktail LIBRE
Ballet movement in which a foot slides outwards GLISSE
Gift tokens VOUCHERS
A living member of a kingdom or family ANIMAL
Sudden and uncontrollable bouts of deep sleep NARCOLEPSY
Percy ____ presented Gardener’s World from 1969 to 1976 THROWER
European state between Styria and Bavaria Upper Austria