The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2021 Aug 29

• 18th-century French writer of the play Turcaret and the picaresque novel Gil Blas Crossword Clue
• A bird of the rail family Crossword Clue
• A bird similar to a cormorant, but slightly smaller Crossword Clue
• Actor who starred alongside John Travolta in the 1996 film Broken Arrow Crossword Clue
• A letter of the Greek alphabet which is hardly ever used in mathematical notation Crossword Clue
• American soldier, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, and one of the founders of Vermont Crossword Clue
• A name for a left-wing lifestyle, coined by Tom Wolfe Crossword Clue
• An American term for a nuclear reactor catastrophe Crossword Clue
• A person who works in the “black gold” industry Crossword Clue
• Author of the poetry collections Amores and Tristia Crossword Clue
• Author of The Well of Loneliness Crossword Clue
• Bull’s Blood of ____ was a Hungarian red wine promoted in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s Crossword Clue
• Description of a house with single lower and upper main rooms Crossword Clue
• Descriptive name of Ophiuchus, the constellation between Scorpius and Orion Crossword Clue
• Early bicycles with front wheel pedals Crossword Clue
• Film director David ____ created Twin Peaks with Mark Frost Crossword Clue
• Former Shropshire waterway which featured Telford’s first cast-iron aqueduct Crossword Clue
• Having a number of different hues Crossword Clue
• In a restaurant, the leg and loin of (nearly always) a deer Crossword Clue
• In David Copperfield, Dickens tells us that Mr Micawber’s favourite expression is “in case anything ____” Crossword Clue
• In psychoanalysis, the impulse associated with sexual instinct Crossword Clue
• In the 17th century, a broken ____ was a group of musicians playing different instruments Crossword Clue
• “I ____ the noble housewife with the time, to entertain it so merrily with a fool” (All’s Well That Ends Well) Crossword Clue
• Ivan ____ is best known for his work on conditioned reflexes Crossword Clue
• More difficult to understand Crossword Clue
• Moved with an up and down rocking motion Crossword Clue
• New Zealand’s most populous city Crossword Clue
• “Not the archers. […] Arrows cost money. ____ the Irish. The dead cost nothing.” (Edward I, in Braveheart) Crossword Clue
• Of a law, applied retrospectively Crossword Clue
• Of weather, to improve Crossword Clue
• Parisian fashion house founded in 1932 Crossword Clue
• “____ particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we’re so interested in them” (Steven Weinberg) Crossword Clue
• Referee who sent off three players in the 2007 League Cup final between Chelsea and Arsenal Crossword Clue
• Russian multiple rocket launcher of the Second World War, named after a patriotic song Crossword Clue
• Sega’s equivalent to Nintendo’s Mario Crossword Clue
• Teammate of Lewis Hamilton since 2017 Crossword Clue
• That which is tempting but dangerous or illegal Crossword Clue
• The 1965 autobiography of Sammy Davis, Jr Crossword Clue
• The manner of a disease’s development Crossword Clue
• The Man of Property is the first of three novels in The ____ Crossword Clue
• “The two divinest things this world has got / A lovely woman in a ____ spot!” (Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini) Crossword Clue
• Topping for some scones Crossword Clue
• “Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant ____ of those who merely happen to be walking about” (GK Chesterton) Crossword Clue
• Travels standing up on urban public transport Crossword Clue
• Webpages using converted printed marketing material Crossword Clue
• Words asking a horse to start or increase pace Crossword Clue