The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 11 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Spoke rapidly and/or nonsensically yabbered
The main grain used in making bourbon whiskey MAIZE
The quality of seeming solemn and/or wise OWLISHNESS
Took defensive action, originally in a military force closed ranks
US informal expression of approval, often of someone’s appearance hubba hubba
____ clubs provide a form of child care after-school
Musical form which often amounts to “sacred madrigal” MOTET
Gershwin song written for The Goldwyn Follies Love is Here to Stay
Cuban location of a failed landing attempt by US-assisted exiles in 1961 Bay of Pigs
Composer and organist John ____ taught Henry Purcell BLOW
Chinese dynasty, in power AD618-907 TANG
Art gallery located in a former railway terminus Musee d'Orsay
An egg-laying and venomous mammal PLATYPUS
Africa’s ____ fly is identifiable by its long proboscis TSETSE
A ____ may be used as preparation for an exam Past paper
A person expected to answer questions interrogatee
A book of prescribed lessons for church services LECTIONARY
1961 film about pool shark “Fast Eddie” Felson The Hustler
“Driver” and “conductor” are ____ nouns AGENT
Online location for manga and similar entertainment WEBCOMIC
The larger natural satellite of Mars PHOBOS
Privy to (a secret) IN ON
“You get an ____, you’re a scientist” (Maureen Lipman in 1980s BT advertising) OLOGY
Award won by Georg Solti 31 times and Beyoncé 28 times GRAMMY
George and Weedon ____ wrote The Diary of a Nobody GROSSMITH
In an amusingly unconventional way ZANILY