The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The ____ produces a fruit sometimes called Chinese date jujube tree
The terminal structure of an axon nerve ending
The Jewish festivals of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana High Holidays
In Dad’s Army, Pike was sometimes “____ Mr Mainwaring” all wet
Member of Portugal’s Euro 2012 team; an anagram of his team captain’s surname rolando
Groups of shackled convicts working outside prison chain gangs
Gaby ____ was a presenter of BBC Children in Need, 1995-2004 roslin
French military decoration created in 1915 Croix de Guerre
Makes slightly sour ACIDULATES
Drops of Jupiter (____) was a 2001 hit single by Train Tell Me
Colloquially, vehicles which use a lot of fuel gas guzzlers
____’s disease is an earlier name for nephritis BRIGHT
American singer who became Instagram’s most followed musician in 2019 Ariana Grande
Vitamin-rich cereal extract, often added to foods WHEATGERM
The ____ pippin is an eating apple first grown in Essex STURMER
Italian almond macaroons AMARETTI
The River Teifi’s ____ Falls are its first significant barrier for salmon heading upstream to spawn CENARTH
“To be weak is miserable, ____” (Paradise Lost) Doing or suffering
An image of a god IDOL
Italian-born cardinal Jules ____ was France’s first minister of state, 1642-61 MAZARIN
1979 album and single by Fleetwood Mac TUSK
Historical region, now home to about 60 per cent of Czechs BOHEMIA
One of Patrick ____’s detective roles was DS Steve Hackett in Target, a BBC attempt to outdo The Sweeney MOWER
First male tennis player to appear in 19 grand-slam finals IVAN LENDL
Abertawe SWANSEA
A light and clear red colour CERISE
“We love him [or her] ____” is often followed by “but” DEARLY
“And don’t call me ____” ends some famous dialogue in Airplane! SHIRLEY