The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Footballer nicknamed El Pibe de Oro (The Golden Boy) Diego Maradona
CHRISTMAS NATIVITY
Covered in liquid ASWIM
Writer and presenter of Letter from America ALISTAIR COOKE
Body of water on which Anchorage lies Cook Inlet
Last novel in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy Titus Alone
1985 sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
In poetry, having a stressed syllable after an unstressed one IAMBIC
Looped cross symbol of ancient Egypt ANKH
“Lousy but ____” (East End banner for George V’s Jubilee) LOYAL
Food flavouring used as a scent in drag hunting ANISEED
____ pinnata has been Mexico’s national flower since 1963 DAHLIA
Actor whose last TV role was as Agrippa in Spartacus ALAN BATES
A series of downloadable digital audio files PODCAST
Rope-soled light canvas shoes ESPADRILLES
Motorsport venue which features Indy Circuit and Grand Prix layouts BRANDS HATCH
To officially cancel RESCIND
Satirist and cricket fan who co-founded Private Eye Willie Rushton
Australian artist noted for his paintings of outlaw Ned Kelly Sidney Nolan
____ played Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again Kim Basinger
In a 1953 Mervyn Peake novel, Mr ___ goes to Sark to preach PYE