The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
To dim (one’s eyes) BLEAR
Resin secreted by an Asian bug SHELLAC
Portuguese song genre, featured in a 2023 BBC Prom FADO
One name for a major pest sewer rat
Rhyming slang expression of incredulity would you Adam and Eve it
John Updike novel, filmed in 1987 The Witches of Eastwick
Series which included Nuts in May and Abigail’s Party Play for Today
J ____, senator for Arkansas 1945-74, founded a prestigious scholarship programme William Fulbright
In road travel, a possible result of a leaky valve slow puncture
Someone acting in a consciously independent way UNILATERALIST
The literary pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans GEORGE ELIOT
Areas of rough water created by opposing currents tide rips
American shock rock band founded in 1973 KISS
____ was a spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show RHODA
1957 Beckett play set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland ENDGAME
THE MUSE OF HISTORY CLIO
Womble named after a Siberian city TOMSK
Upton ____’s 1906 book The Jungle was about meat-packing workers, but created more concern about food safety SINCLAIR
Two pages of Series B UK passports show Anish ____’s work KAPOOR
The mineral pitchblende is a form of ____ dioxide URANIUM
Lollipop-sucking detective of 1970s TV KOJAK
Jess ____’s decision to go “on t’road” starts JB Priestley’s The Good Companions OAKROYD
High-value coin often mentioned in pirate fiction DOUBLOON
Greater Manchester town where Reebok had its headquarters until 1984 BOLTON
Alex ____ replaced Jonny Bairstow in England’s 2022 T20 world cup squad HALES