The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 08

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