The Times Specialist 2022 12 25 - Crossword Answers

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

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

According to art chaps will be identical in Scotland

samen

Finally, transport cafe — roll on

once-for-all

Being peevish in speech I squint

cross-eye