The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2022 Dec 25

• 2011 Steven Spielberg computer-animated film featuring a character created by cartoonist Hergé Crossword Clue
• 'A ____ Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian' (CS Lewis) Crossword Clue
• African county called the land of a thousand hills Crossword Clue
• 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of ____, of most excellent fancy' (Shakespeare) Crossword Clue
• American city in which sports teams the Marlins and the Dolphins play their home games Crossword Clue
• 'And the good ____, he's dressing / He's getting ready for the show / He's going to the carnival tonight / on Desolation Row' (Bob Dylan) Crossword Clue
• Angels in the highest of nine 'choirs' or orders Crossword Clue
• Band who had a 1982 number one with The Lion Sleeps Tonight Crossword Clue
• Benbecula, Eriskay and Taransay, for example Crossword Clue
• 'Britain's 2012 relay coach hands over ____' (2011 The Times sport headline, about a resignation) Crossword Clue
• British newspaper founded on January 1, 1785, under the name The Daily Universal Register Crossword Clue
• ____ cards, which show one of five different symbols, have been used in experiments about ESP Crossword Clue
• Crooner who, on his 1977 Merrie Olde Christmas show, performed Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie Crossword Clue
• Dense, often dark loaf made using secale cereale Crossword Clue
• District once described as London's French quarter Crossword Clue
• Egyptian goddess whose headdress in some depictions is a sun disc between cow horns Crossword Clue
• Film-making siblings who executive-produced Bad Santa and won a 1991 Palme d'Or for Barton Fink Crossword Clue
• Fish which may be sterlet, ossetra, or sevruga Crossword Clue
• Forename used in some Balkan countries, notably by the leader of Albania between 1944 and 1985 Crossword Clue
• 'Happiness is having a loving, ____ family in another city' (George Burns) Crossword Clue
• Hates intensely Crossword Clue
• In central and eastern parts of Alpine Europe, a legendary horned creature who punishes naughty children with birch branches in 45A Crossword Clue
• In chemistry, compounds containing molecules of water or its constituent elements Crossword Clue
• In the ancient Roman calendar, a plural noun for a day near the middle of a month Crossword Clue
• Neon, helium and argon, for example Crossword Clue
• '_____, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust' (Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary) Crossword Clue
• Numbered 92220, the last steam engine built by British Railways, in 1960 Crossword Clue
• One of nine women in a famous song Crossword Clue
• Piero della Francesca's example of this seasonal kind of painting is back on display at the National Gallery after a recent restoration Crossword Clue
• 'Pray ye dutifully prime / Your matin chime, ye ringers / May ye beautifully rime / Your evetime song, ye singers' (____) Crossword Clue
• Richard Ayoade and Jon Hamm spent 48 hours in Hong Kong for the 2017 Christmas special of this Channel 4 show Crossword Clue
• Roman God whose Greek counterpart is Pan Crossword Clue
• Ronnie, Keith and Mick, for example Crossword Clue
• Russian author who wrote At Christmas Time and Three Sisters Crossword Clue
• Russian leader who, on his resignation in 1999, named Vladimir Putin acting president of Russia Crossword Clue
• Season with four Sundays, at the beginning of the church year Crossword Clue
• '____ / sticks / in my teeth too, / and I'd rather / compose / romances for you' (Vladimir Mayakovsky) Crossword Clue
• Sweet dessert wine produced near a Sicilian port Crossword Clue
• The first religious figure recorded as having these wounds was Saint Francis of Assisi Crossword Clue
• The more seasonal of Oasis's Gallagher brothers? Crossword Clue
• The most popular version of this translated Kurt Weill song includes five semitone-up modulations Crossword Clue
• The ____ Patent-Motorwagen, patented in 1886, was the first commercially available car Crossword Clue
• 'The practical man in the street who knows anything about ____ is quite aware that they are in their nature and intention lotteries' (The Economist, 1908) Crossword Clue
• The second distal carpal bone in the human wrist Crossword Clue
• The tempo marking for the rondo movement that ends Mozart's fourth horn concerto is Allegro ____ Crossword Clue
• Tree with aerial roots growing down into the soil Crossword Clue
• Type of vessel in which François Gabart broke an around-the-world record in 2017 Crossword Clue
• Waifish supermodel associated with 'heroin chic' Crossword Clue
• ____ winds blow up slopes heated by sunshine Crossword Clue
• Word that can prefix leopard, blindness and tyres Crossword Clue