The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Tool used to create a pilot hole for a nail or screw BRADAWL
Welsh composer and dramatist who wrote Keep The Home Fires Burning Ivor Novello
Tie knot which produces a small neat triangle Half-Windsor
Sheldon Cooper’s portrayer in The Big Bang Theory Jim Parsons
The ____ was founded as The New Observer in 1821 SUNDAY TIMES
The extinct migratory bird Ectopistes migratorius passenger pigeon
Name for some insects feeding on animal blood or insect haemolymph Vampire ant
Name for several canine film stars, mentioned in The Magnificent Seven by The Clash rin tin tin
Lead single from The Pet Shop Boys 1987 album Actually It's a Sin
The destructive crop pest Ceratitis capitata Mediterranean fruit fly
Happy Days nerdy character played by Anson Williams Potsie Weber
Frankie Goes to Hollywood single between Relax and The Power of Love Two Tribes
Sunday luxury for many; 1960s passive resistance protest lie-in
Speed unit for transmission by a modem BAUD
Small cafe typical of France’s Nord-Pas-de-Calais region ESTAMINET
The turkey buzzard, for example VULTURE
Australian soprano born Helen Porter Mitchell Dame Nellie Melba
The Land of Lincoln on US licence plates since 1954 ILLINOIS
Sitcom whose central character was landlord Rupert Rigsby RISING DAMP
Shaped like a mushroom FUNGIFORM
Of an angle, between 91 and 179 degrees OBTUSE
A naval flag often indicating nationality ENSIGN
A 3W LED bulb produces 200 ____s LUMEN
In statistics, a cumulative frequency graph OGIVE
Flower which blooms around dusk EVENING PRIMROSE
Football club known as The Toffees EVERTON
“I hope his ____ savages his ankles” (George Galloway, on David Blunkett) GUIDE DOG
A matching jumper and cardigan TWINSET
Canada’s main Pacific port VANCOUVER
Aziz ____ played Tom Haverford in Parks and Recreation ANSARI