The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2018 Dec 09

• 1980s pop movement which included Duran Duran Crossword Clue
• Alliterative Scots name for a hanging clock with exposed pendulum and weights Crossword Clue
• An adjectival meaning of “desert” Crossword Clue
• ____ and the Trossachs National Park was established in 2002 Crossword Clue
• A number used to indicate the position of a point Crossword Clue
• A theatre’s ____ bar serves interval drinks Crossword Clue
• Athlete who won the javelin and 80m hurdles at the 1932 Olympics, and under her married name, three US Women’s Opens in golf Crossword Clue
• Baroness ____ wrote the Scarlet Pimpernel novels Crossword Clue
• Based in Switzerland, the world’s largest food company Crossword Clue
• Beast captured by Hercules in the fourth of his labours Crossword Clue
• Beetle that was sacred in ancient Egypt Crossword Clue
• Bette Davis starred in this 1948 film about journalists covering a wedding Crossword Clue
• Card game in which you may have to lie Crossword Clue
• Coastal drowned river valley, such as Milford Haven Crossword Clue
• Contested at the 1912 Olympics, a variant of some throwing events, possibly favouring ambidextrous athletes Crossword Clue
• Deborah ____ has been a Dragons’ Den investor since 2006 Crossword Clue
• Descriptive name for realgar, an ore of a toxic element Crossword Clue
• European nation whose flag has blue, black and white stripes Crossword Clue
• Faye Dunaway’s co-star and producer in Bonnie and Clyde Crossword Clue
• Ferrero product which apparently uses a quarter of the world supply of hazelnuts Crossword Clue
• “Finding bad ____ for what one believes for other bad ____ — that’s philosophy” (Aldous Huxley) Crossword Clue
• Foodstuff used in pina coladas and some curry recipes Crossword Clue
• Gary ____ played Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour Crossword Clue
• George and Ira Gershwin’s I Got ____ was written for the musical Girl Crazy Crossword Clue
• Glam rock band whose Lonely This Christmas was the UK’s Christmas No 1 in 1974 Crossword Clue
• Human beings have five ____ organs, two in pairs Crossword Clue
• Lack of bonhomie Crossword Clue
• ____ law was a legal code, often equated with the exclusion of women from inheritance Crossword Clue
• Many ____ are produced with Penicillium roqueforti Crossword Clue
• Ornamental loop, originally intended to prevent loss of a weapon in battle Crossword Clue
• “Our people grumbled for more ____ and washing machines” (Russian ambassador, in Doctor Strangelove) Crossword Clue
• PDQ ____ is a composer invented by musical satirist Peter Schickele Crossword Clue
• Sculptor of the bronze David in Florence’s Bargello Crossword Clue
• Sea stack in the Orkney Islands, first climbed in 1966 Crossword Clue
• Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in ____ Crossword Clue
• Sicilian dish usually including aubergines, celery, onions, capers, raisins and vinegar Crossword Clue
• Suite for piano, considered Isaac Albeniz’s masterpiece Crossword Clue
• Surface-ripened cheese, named after an East Prussia town (now called Sovetsk) Crossword Clue
• Sword with a sharply pointed blade, used to pierce armour Crossword Clue
• The capital of Niger Crossword Clue
• “The ____ from the palace has the brew that is true” (Danny Kaye, in The Court Jester) Crossword Clue
• The gravitational equilibrium by which the earth’s crust “floats” over its mantle Crossword Clue
• The most common ester in wine, also used to decaffeinate coffee beans Crossword Clue
• The part of the throat above the larynx and oesophagus Crossword Clue
• The title of this Somerset Maugham novel is a quotation from Twelfth Night Crossword Clue
• This is an unanswerable question for you to think about Crossword Clue
• This is often recommended as a good way to pack a formal jacket in a suitcase Crossword Clue
• To convert from liquid to vapour and back again Crossword Clue
• To pass, survive or win, but only just Crossword Clue
• To place things close together or side by side Crossword Clue
• Village at the southern end of the Pennine Way Crossword Clue
• Wading bird named after its feeding technique Crossword Clue
• What Hansel and Gretel left behind (unsuccessfully) to help them find their way home from the forest Crossword Clue
• Words attributed to Caesar, crossing the Rubicon Crossword Clue