The Times Specialist 2023 04 02 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Received an invitation to play for a national team	was capped
____’s hits include Song Sung Blue and Sweet Caroline	NEIL DIAMOND
Radiology department’s way in aptly rent or damaged	entry portal
Horse having energy for nada hoc loco?	HEREIN
Nursery rhyme character used as a frequent motif in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake	HUMPTY DUMPTY
“I am willing to love all ____, except an American” (Samuel Johnson)	MANKIND
End of one special housing estate, say, demanding drop?	ESCARP
A product of melted sugar	CARAMEL
Splenetic fiction and note on a lecturer	LIENAL
Most fish round conflict finding support for collective activity	groupware
Lost age’s compliance in trust turned up before	epocha
Children’s TV series (1998-2000) based on an Enid Blyton character	NODDY
Stinker from translator in error	TROUT
Distraught Euboean’s lost barrels of bronze	AENEOUS
The capital of Oman	MUSCAT
Simple parcel given by English children	lo-tech
Best friend of Charlie Brown	LINUS
One attendant on deity’s returning capacity to bear such as lust	panisc
____ won a best actress Oscar for her role in Black Swan	Natalie Portman
Old boring jig?	LOURE
To send people, especially troops, by road transport	EMBUS
That which precedes maggio in Italy	APRILE
Wetland feeder mostly finding a quantity of fish	CRAN
Outwits cops wanting answer	BESTS
The capital of Togo	LOME
Downy perennial also called cinquefoil or bloodroot	TORMENTIL
In short form top officer subverted local tangle being a measure of type	CICERO
In a cleverly simple or ingenious way	ELEGANTLY
Perhaps Colombian plainsman left a loner roving	LLANERO
The bellflower Campanula rapunculus	RAMPION
“Let it stand” in proofreading marks	STET
Edge near a new figment of her imagination?	he-man
American cinema charging five cents for admission	NICKELODEON
A “living picture” in art	TABLEAU VIVANT
Coastal surveillance team watch grifter first	shark patrol
SpaceX launch vehicle which carried a Tesla Roadster in 2018	Falcon Heavy
Plantations waste away over time, one added	PINETA
To quibble over details	PETTIFOG
Honey guide from Wellington, it appears in Uncle Sam’s old tip	GRATUITY
Old name for an English-based creole or pidgin language	talkee-talkee
’Allo ’Allo! character who “shall say zis only once”	MICHELLE DUBOIS
Philological Society about to smear (in a poetic sense) conclusions	POINTS
TV commercial which lasts for just a few seconds	blipvert
Husband who’s not a natural gent set up in shifting señor’s shields	RONDACHES
Review about person I have is realised realistically	in perspective
Take prescription as excellent tips from eye clinic assumed	RECIPE
Filled dumplings from eastern Europe	PIEROGI

Received an invitation to play for a national team

was capped

____’s hits include Song Sung Blue and Sweet Caroline

NEIL DIAMOND

Radiology department’s way in aptly rent or damaged

entry portal

Horse having energy for nada hoc loco?

HEREIN

Nursery rhyme character used as a frequent motif in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

HUMPTY DUMPTY

“I am willing to love all ____, except an American” (Samuel Johnson)

MANKIND