The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Eg, Fred Baron — chap who adds value BASSET
Cue story about chivalry COURTESY
Delight as little Italian embraces eccentricity TREAT
Outmoded field of study concerning French soul reame
Cushion punch after embraces HASSOCK
“Pray ye dutifully prime / Your matin chime, ye ringers / May ye beautifully rime / Your evetime song, ye singers” (____) Ding Dong Merrily On High
Neon, helium and argon, for example noble gases
Notorious mimic’s dull and standard blah grey parrot
Such as a group of maids a-milking joining only child, little ’un OCTAD
Roman God whose Greek counterpart is Pan SILVANUS
Sweet dessert wine produced near a Sicilian port MARSALA
Fish which may be sterlet, ossetra, or sevruga STURGEON
Up-to-date ingenuity replacing ads in store ADROITNESS
Whirling tender god? EROS
Finally, transport cafe — roll on once-for-all
According to art chaps will be identical in Scotland samen
Worm is two times circled by old hound disregarding master LYTTA
In a rarely used way preposterously do West African kroo
2011 Steven Spielberg computer-animated film featuring a character created by cartoonist Hergé The Adventures of Tintin
Being peevish in speech I squint cross-eye
____ cards, which show one of five different symbols, have been used in experiments about ESP ZENER
District once described as London’s French quarter SOHO
Desert conflict contained by anarchist REWARD
One of nine women in a famous song DANCER
Benbecula, Eriskay and Taransay, for example Western Isles
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of ____, of most excellent fancy” (Shakespeare) Infinite Jest
Russian leader who, on his resignation in 1999, named Vladimir Putin acting president of Russia Boris Yeltsin
Nine-pillared building neatly seen ENNEASTYLE
Egyptian goddess whose headdress in some depictions is a sun disc between cow horns ISIS
Location finder is bidirectional and excellent on most craft RADAR
Yankee caravan? One jeering behind it TRAILER
Secretary’s first to mind about King’s presumed misprint scarre
Ludicrous poem is about Loch’s lustreless gem semi-opal
Freak freed in a prank played by French fredaine
Act central to Whisky Galore! managed by Scots personality ransel
In chemistry, compounds containing molecules of water or its constituent elements HYDRATES
Cart rolling up during morning run is early drinker’s datum? YARDARM
First schoolgirl finding service in Rome MISSA
“Britain’s 2012 relay coach hands over ____” (2011 The Times sport headline, about a resignation) BATON
HATES INTENSELY DETESTS
Dense, often dark loaf made using secale cereale rye bread
____ winds blow up slopes heated by sunshine anabatic
Vagrant, true one in transit EN ROUTE