The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2022 May 08

• 1,000,000,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Crossword Clue
• 1970s TV show for children, in which the main characters were Penelope Arbuckle and a local witch Crossword Clue
• A device used for leaving an aeroplane; informally, another such device Crossword Clue
• A military slang alternative to “mufti” Crossword Clue
• A military task, or the group assigned to carry it out Crossword Clue
• Another name for wampum Crossword Clue
• A premolar tooth has buccal and lingual ____s Crossword Clue
• A smell that’s usually bad Crossword Clue
• A Winter Paralympics Super-G contestant may be a ____ Crossword Clue
• Capital of the former Duchy of Lorraine Crossword Clue
• Chess piece often given a relative value of five points, a pawn being worth one Crossword Clue
• Device used to transmit speech in a noisy environment Crossword Clue
• Dinnerladies canteen manager, played by Andrew Dunn Crossword Clue
• “Droopy awnings are out and only spirit-level precision works” (BBC2’s description of its ____ of the Year programmes shown in 2017) Crossword Clue
• Exercise system using very slow controlled movements Crossword Clue
• Fast ships used to enforce customs regulations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries Crossword Clue
• From the Greek for “places”, literary themes or formulae Crossword Clue
• Greek island, part of a British protectorate, 1815-64 Crossword Clue
• Having many offspring, or showing love towards them Crossword Clue
• Hawaii’s second largest island; trickster in Polynesian myth Crossword Clue
• In British history, the best-remembered event of 1605 Crossword Clue
• Informally, especially in a sporting context, “completely” Crossword Clue
• Informally, ready and eager to participate Crossword Clue
• In French, a label; in English, standards of behaviour Crossword Clue
• “I set out to destroy socialism because I felt it was ____ with the character of the people” (Margaret Thatcher) Crossword Clue
• Larry ____ played the harmonica on the soundtrack of the film Genevieve Crossword Clue
• “Mobility as a service” provider, launched in the US in 2011 Crossword Clue
• ____ needed much help from umpires to finish first in the 1908 Olympic marathon, and was later disqualified Crossword Clue
• One of the two projections close to a cannon’s centre of gravity Crossword Clue
• One of two Status Quo members awarded OBEs in 2010 Crossword Clue
• ____ Place in Higham, Kent, was Dickens’s last home Crossword Clue
• Polish composer Witold ____’s third symphony was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1983 Crossword Clue
• Repeated use of a fabric, seen as a fashion faux pas Crossword Clue
• She’s ____ and He’s ____ are romcom films loosely based on Shaw’s Pygmalion Crossword Clue
• Someone studying the Christian church or its buildings Crossword Clue
• Sour in taste; sharp or forthright in speech or comments Crossword Clue
• “Take note, take note, O world! / To be ____ and honest is not safe” (Iago in Othello) Crossword Clue
• The answer to this clue is the least interesting Crossword Clue
• The ____ blue butterfly is extinct in most of Britain Crossword Clue
• The first device to execute instructions on punched cards Crossword Clue
• The first steamship purpose-built for Atlantic crossings Crossword Clue
• The kind of group depicted in TV’s Peaky Blinders series Crossword Clue
• “The miserable have ____ medicine / But only hope” (Claudio in Measure for Measure) Crossword Clue
• The nurse lusted after by Arkwright in Open All Hours Crossword Clue
• Village near Kingston upon Thames, renamed when a nearby suburb was created by the arrival of a railway Crossword Clue
• Wichita ____ was a 1969 hit for Glen Campbell Crossword Clue
• ____ wrote the TV series Trinity Tales, about a rugby league pilgrimage, including characters like the Wife of Batley Crossword Clue
• Yiddish exclamation of dismay following “Leaving Brooklyn” on a road sign on New York’s Williamsburg Bridge Crossword Clue