The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 07 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Petty gangster or ruffian HOODLUM
Pruned tidily; adorned TRIMMED
Unfair use of power to benefit or employ family or friends NEPOTISM
Joe Root’s successor as England Test cricket captain BEN STOKES
Irish singer-songwriter whose Orinoco Flow was a No 1 hit in 1988 ENYA
Head judge in Strictly Come Dancing, 2004-2016 Len Goodman
Excessive refinement NICETY
English ballerina who became a Strictly judge in 2012 Darcey Bussell
Dancer who has appeared in every Strictly series and is now a judge Anton du Beke
Currency used in Liberia, Namibia or Taiwan, for instance DOLLARS
Choreographer and director of West End musicals, and a Strictly judge 2004-2008 Arlene Phillips
Argued; propelled a boat ROWED
A British state school’s year includes five ____s inset day
Non-technical name for urticaria NETTLE RASH
A FIXED NUMBER OF VERSE LINES FORMING A UNIT OF A POEM STANZA
Midlands town where Jensen cars were made, 1935-76 West Bromwich
Located in Port Charlotte, one of Islay’s nine distilleries bruichladdich
Kiln for drying hops, especially in Kent Oast house
“Is […] bad treatment ever given to a person? / No, it is always ____ out” (Flann O’Brien’s Myles na gCopaleen Catechism of Cliché) METED