The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 10 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
In VAT calculations, ____ tax is deducted from VAT on sold goods or services INPUT
Informally, a very cheap means of transportation Shanks's pony
Italian cheese similar to Limburger and Pont-l’Évèque TALEGGIO
Mrs Slocombe’s assistant in Are You Being Served? Miss Brahms
Nicholas ____ wrote The Cruel Sea in 1951 MONSARRAT
Of text, converted by a system like pinyin romanised
Oven-controlling device whose name was superseded by “gas mark” REGULO
Su capital es Sevilla ANDALUCIA
A horse race won ____ is close to a dead heat by a nose
A bird named after its diet carrion crow
“____ will be going away shortly” — recent poetic statement about changes in Microsoft Outlook coming soon
Secrets of success X factors
Publishing company whose website calls its founders “two dashing young entrepreneurs” Mills and Boon
Flower shown on Austria’s two eurocent coin EDELWEISS
English equivalent of “casus belli” act of war
What ____ is not yet decided remains to be seen
____’s disastrous adventures were first seen on TV in 1973 Frank Spencer
Community First ____s are local volunteers who may attend an emergency call before paramedics RESPONDER
Ancient region where cuneiform writing was used MESOPOTAMIA
Al ____ won four Olympic discus titles, 1956-68 OERTER
A phrase created by mishearing, such as “damp squid” or “preying mantis” EGGCORN
A laser pointer’s light power output is often up to five ____s MILLIWATT
“We are able to create a range of climatic conditions in our seven display ____” (Oxford Botanic Gardens website) GLASSHOUSES
“I have be-dimmed / The ____ sun” (Prospero in The Tempest) NOONTIDE
Verse: poetaster; painting: ____ DAUBER
The ___ was a government owned bookmaker, 1928-2011 TOTE