The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Colloquially, suffered humiliation ate dirt
Painful condition known technically as onychocryptosis ingrown toenail
In old-fashioned informal speech, in disguise INCOG
Punk band founded and fronted by Dave Vanian THE DAMNED
Archaically, a week an eight days
Pantomime character based on a medieval merchant Dick Whittington
1992 legal drama film based on a 1989 Aaron Sorkin play A Few Good Men
Word for “child”, derived ultimately from Latin “unable to speak” INFANT
Form of exercise also called an abdominal bridge PLANK
1976 comedic novel by Tom Sharpe WILT
Rod Hull’s violent sidekick on 1970s and 1980s TV EMU
Diacritic mark which is part of its own name in Czech HACEK
Like a mule or hinny INTERBRED
Traditional Arabian long-sleeved hooded cloaks djellabas
Detention centre “treatment” promised as a future government action by William Whitelaw in 1977 short sharp shock
Rapid transport system situated around Spain’s Ibaizabal river Metro Bilbao
Incapable of being relieved or mitigated unassuageable
“Ha, ha! Give me to drink ____” (Antony and Cleopatra) MANDRAGORA
Of a rope, separated into individual strands (nautical) UNLAID
“I am at a stage in my life […] where I am completely ____ to what I am as a writer” (John le Carré) RECONCILED