The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A horse or rider in a race over hurdles STEEPLECHASER
A piece of equipment: more specifically, a fire engine APPLIANCE
Actress who played “Hot Lips” in MASH on TV Loretta Swit
Britain’s smallest falcon MERLIN
Departing from a place or subject wandering off
Description not currently applying to many deciduous trees in Britain IN LEAF
Forename of Channel 5’s newest Egghead, who writes quizzes for The Times OLAV
Greek writer of Parallel Lives PLUTARCH
Jocular local name for native of Hobart or Launceston taswegian
Literary assistant who takes dictation or copies manuscript AMANUENSIS
Military expedition advancing to a territory’s interior, notably by Xenophon in Asia Minor ANABASIS
Nickname currently on new Alaskan license plates Last Frontier
Powder which can be made from cassava, chestnuts or chickpeas FLOUR
The English equivalent of quatre-vingt-dix NINETY
The opposite of what a martinet would be LENIENT
The puffin, in Scotland Tammie Norie
The satanic nations mentioned in Revelation 20 Gog and Magog
The ____ of most 1990s computer monitors was 4:3 aspect ratio
To appear after a long spell of invisibility RESURFACE
Usually bicoloured confection, made from grated palm fruit and sugar syrup coconut ice
____ elatior was a popular house plant in late Victorian Britain ASPIDISTRA
1987 Percy Aldon film, released in Germany as Out of Rosenheim Bagdad Cafe
Konrad ____ shared a 1973 Nobel prize for his work on animal behaviour LORENZ
Apparatus used to maintain a constant low temperature CRYOSTAT
Alloy of nickel and titanium, which has shape memory NITINOL
A fairly cheap Italian restaurant OSTERIA
A decorative flourish in calligraphy CURLICUE
Rugby union international whose tally of 38 tries for France remains a record Serge Blanco