The Times Specialist 2024 01 14 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Joni Mitchell’s second album, released in 1969	CLOUDS
Name for a queen in Italian card packs which have queens	DONNA
The Beano’s General ____ ran a remote control model army	JUMBO
Type of book whose name comes from Latin for “white”	ALBUM
Ill-mannered, especially of a male towards a female	UNCHIVALROUS
Hypotension	low blood pressure
Historically, a Lord of ____ presided over Christmas revelry	MISRULE
Hastings ____ was Malawi’s first president	BANDA
Glam rock band formed by Marc Bolan in 1967	T Rex
Genre mixing R’n’B, soul, and rap, mainly circa 1988-93	new jack swing
Divine nectar in Hinduism	AMRITA
Desktop PC web search feature, 2010-2017, showing likely desired lists of hits as you typed, eg Yellowstone National Park ones for “yellows”	Google Instant
Cycle relay race in which Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny are current Olympic champions	MADISON
Convention venue served by Custom House DLR station	EXCEL
An Arabic ruler (variant spelling)	EMEER
American brand of playing cards manufactured since 1885	BICYCLE
A volcanic crater	CALDERA
A diaphanous dressing gown or nightwear garment	NEGLIGEE
'So, what, do I just sit here and ____ about me-self?' (Jamie Tartt, footballer in TV series Ted Lasso)	blabber on and on
“Photography […] records / Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds, / And will not censor ____” (Philip Larkin)	BLEMISHES
Set into a surface	INLAID
Argentine footballer who joined Inter Miami in 2023	LIONEL MESSI
YouTuber jailed in 2023 for crashing a plane for views	Trevor Jacob
To one’s self, in French	a soi
Substance formerly used to extinguish fires involving electronic equipment	HALON
Roderick Random’s uncle in a 1748 Tobias Smollett novel	Tom Bowling
Pertaining to national productivity, interest rates etc	macroeconomic
Neurologist whose book Awakenings became a 1990 film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro	Oliver Sacks
Lacking fingers and/or toes	adactylous
John F Kennedy, ____, Richard Nixon	Lyndon B Johnson
ACADEMIC MEETINGS	COLLOQUIA

Joni Mitchell’s second album, released in 1969

CLOUDS

Name for a queen in Italian card packs which have queens

DONNA

The Beano’s General ____ ran a remote control model army

JUMBO

Type of book whose name comes from Latin for “white”

ALBUM

Ill-mannered, especially of a male towards a female

UNCHIVALROUS

Hypotension

low blood pressure