The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Idiomatic phrase about extinction, used in Piers Plowman (c. 1370) dead as a doornail
Heraldic body located on Queen Victoria Street, London college of arms
Device typically used for a dial-up internet service MODEM
Fictional collie created in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight LASSIE
Old synonym for “lifted” or “removed”, now only used in an idiomatic phrase HOIST
____ played James T Kirk in several Star Trek films (2009-2016) Chris Pine
The ____ is an English language newspaper published in India since 1875 STATESMAN
The name of TS Eliot’s Old Gumbie Cat JENNYANYDOTS
Real name of rapper Puff Daddy Sean Combs
Ceres and Pluto are ____ planets DWARF
1960 Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medallist Cassius Clay
Canada’s national summer sport LACROSSE
“Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain foiled again
Hoarding secretly STASHING
Books which are sold off cheaply REMAINDERS
Alistair ____ wrote Ice Station Zebra MACLEAN
A Sundance Film Festival entry, typically INDIE
The Scuderia Ferrari team’s home racing circuit IMOLA
The “Adulterous”, “Placemakers’” and “Sin on” ____ were named after printing errors BIBLES
That which may colloquially be called a posse ENTOURAGE
“Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart ____ a mystery” (Tennyson) FOREBODES
The muse of comedy THALIA
1975 trucking song featuring Rubber Duck CONVOY
LONG (FOR) YEARN
France’s longest river LOIRE
A roadside cafe, colloquially GREASY SPOON