The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2023 Dec 17

• 1960 Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medallist Crossword Clue
• 1975 Tom Sharpe novel about the construction of the M101 motorway Crossword Clue
• 1975 trucking song featuring Rubber Duck Crossword Clue
• Actress ____ is the sister of Warren Beatty Crossword Clue
• Alistair ____ wrote Ice Station Zebra Crossword Clue
• A roadside cafe, colloquially Crossword Clue
• A Sundance Film Festival entry, typically Crossword Clue
• Black panther who befriends Mowgli in The Jungle Book Crossword Clue
• Books which are sold off cheaply Crossword Clue
• ____ Butler is the male protagonist of Gone with the Wind Crossword Clue
• Canada’s national summer sport Crossword Clue
• Ceres and Pluto are ____ planets Crossword Clue
• Comedian who co-founded the training film company Video Arts in 1972 Crossword Clue
• “Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain Crossword Clue
• Dagger with a long slender blade Crossword Clue
• Dessert cocktail often topped with ground nutmeg Crossword Clue
• Device typically used for a dial-up internet service Crossword Clue
• Fictional collie created in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight Crossword Clue
• First name of Abba’s youngest member Crossword Clue
• First of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels Crossword Clue
• France’s longest river Crossword Clue
• Full version of the abbreviation on Bénédictine liqueur bottle labels Crossword Clue
• Giraffe relative with striped thighs Crossword Clue
• Governors of ancient Greek provinces; Eastern Orthodox bishops Crossword Clue
• Heraldic body located on Queen Victoria Street, London Crossword Clue
• “Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart ____ a mystery” (Tennyson) Crossword Clue
• Hoarding secretly Crossword Clue
• Horace and ____ are dog thieves in both 101 Dalmatians films Crossword Clue
• Idiomatic phrase about extinction, used in Piers Plowman (c. 1370) Crossword Clue
• Lambert Strether is the protagonist of this 1903 Henry James novel Crossword Clue
• Long (for) Crossword Clue
• Musician who fronted the new wave band Tubeway Army Crossword Clue
• Nation with contiguous territory in two continents Crossword Clue
• Old synonym for “lifted” or “removed”, now only used in an idiomatic phrase Crossword Clue
• ____ played James T Kirk in several Star Trek films (2009-2016) Crossword Clue
• Real name of rapper Puff Daddy Crossword Clue
• Religious celebration occurring on the same date every year Crossword Clue
• Slayer of the monster Grendel Crossword Clue
• That which may colloquially be called a posse Crossword Clue
• The act of enforcing the forfeit of a surety for bail Crossword Clue
• The “Adulterous”, “Placemakers’” and “Sin on” ____ were named after printing errors Crossword Clue
• The ____ is an English language newspaper published in India since 1875 Crossword Clue
• The Muse of comedy Crossword Clue
• The name of TS Eliot’s Old Gumbie Cat Crossword Clue
• The Scuderia Ferrari team’s home racing circuit Crossword Clue
• TV presenter who won the sixth series of The Great British Bake Off Crossword Clue