The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Ice skating move named after ____ Paulsen AXEL
The real surname of Mark Twain CLEMENS
FINISHED THROUGH
Preservative substance made from wood tar or coal tar CREOSOTE
City in which Marks & Spencer started as a market stall LEEDS
The atomic number of nitrogen SEVEN
Eye inflammations known medically as hordeola STYES
A frequently metaphorical speaker’s platform SOAPBOX
Star Wars character voiced by Frank Oz YODA
Originally American old term for a percussionist in a jazz or dance band trap drummer
Actor who played villain Hans Gruber in Die Hard Alan Rickman
BBC1 children’s observation game show, 1970-84 Screen Test
Long-tailed monkey which resembles a squirrel MARMOSET
1970s board game whose box featured amateur models Bill Woodward and Cecilia Fung MASTERMIND
Tissue swellings caused by serous fluid (US spelling) EDEMAS
“I believe”, archaically or jocularly METHINKS
“Small showers last long, but sudden ____ are short” (Shakespeare in Richard II) STORMS
The UK’s 1980s answer to Apple as a significant computer brand APRICOT
A person in a “body suit” has many ____ TATTOOS
Launched at high speed CATAPULTED
Norway’s second female prime minister, in office 2013-2021 ERNA SOLBERG
French-based name for a private viewing of paintings before public exhibition VERNISSAGE
Red Dwarf character played by Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge HOLLY
The capital of Laos VIENTIANE
____ won eight grand slam titles but not Wimbledon IVAN LENDL
“'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as ____” (Robert Morley) The natives are waiters
Mr ____ is Captain Hook’s boatswain in Peter Pan SMEE
1976 live double album by Mike Harding One Man Show