The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ORDAINED MINISTERS CLERGY
Long narrow pillow BOLSTER
Ballet movement in which a foot slides outwards GLISSE
Destructive monster created from parts of corpses FRANKENSTEIN
____ played Sharon Watts in EastEnders Letitia Dean
Pat ____ lost Wimbledon singles finals in 2000 and 2001 RAFTER
Music or dance performance during an interval of a drama ENTR'ACTE
US poet whose life’s work is collected in Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
A living member of a kingdom or family ANIMAL
Len McCluskey has been ____’s general secretary since 2011 UNITE
Choux pastry ball, often containing a form of cream PROFITEROLE
Guidance on behaviour or conduct COUNSEL
Newcastle’s Town ____ is a large common MOOR
Character actor Roy ___ was in David Frost’s TW3 team KINNEAR
European state between Styria and Bavaria Upper Austria
Conifers whose wood was used in English longbows YEW TREES
This is often called a “World’s Fair” in American usage EXPO
ITV police drama which ran from 1984 to 2010 The Bill
Percy ____ presented Gardener’s World from 1969 to 1976 THROWER
Kentish “isle” which is not an island THANET
Descriptive of Thomas Hardy’s Jude OBSCURE
The US-based retailer ____ R Us closed its UK stores in 2018 TOYS
Sudden and uncontrollable bouts of deep sleep NARCOLEPSY
A Cuba ____ is a rum cocktail LIBRE
The character also called solidus or slash OBLIQUE
Controlling sinister character in George du Maurier’s Trilby SVENGALI
Alternative name for what Jimmy Carter’s family farmed Monkey nuts
Gift tokens VOUCHERS
Musician like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Fats Domino or Oscar Peterson PIANIST
English artist William ____ painted The Sirens and Ulysses ETTY