The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 04 14

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Weasel-like animals formerly called foulmarts POLECATS
Soul singer who released Your Love is King in 1984 SADE
Roy Orbison song lip-synched to by Dean Stockwell in David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet In Dreams
People who are very passionate about a cause FIREBRANDS
Of wood, being dense or compact in nature close-grained
In Kantian philosophy, a sense of direct perception ANSCHAUUNG
Garment named after an atomic test site, because of its imagined explosive effect BIKINI
Formal term for gullets OESOPHAGI
Flat-bottomed barge used to transport freight SCOW
First novel in Sue Grafton’s Alphabet mystery series A Is For Alibi
Egyptian god seen as a protector of graves and cemeteries ANUBIS
Device used to transfer people in nautical emergencies breeches-buoy
American term for mixed spirit served in a tall glass HIGHBALL
A form of social welfare first paid on January 1, 1909 old age pension
1980s sitcom starring Judy Dench and Michael Williams A Fine Romance
Letters which replaced ROMA on coins in about AUC 674 SPQR
Music award once won but declined by Sinead O’Connor GRAMMY
The beginning of Act 1 CURTAIN UP
Toy involved in a 1950s craze; a potato and maize crisp hula hoop