The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2025 May 18

• 2000 film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring George Clooney Crossword Clue
• Actor, twice Oscar-nominated for playing Henry II Crossword Clue
• Adjective that wouldn't apply to one with a "face for radio" Crossword Clue
• Alice Sebold wrote the novel The ____ Bones Crossword Clue
• A literary rather than spoken language, used by writers like Augustine of Hippo Crossword Clue
• A miniature three-dimensional scene with figures Crossword Clue
• Ancient city that was destroyed in the Punic Wars Crossword Clue
• "And I'll never have that ____ again" (MacArthur Park) Crossword Clue
• A scalene triangle has three ____ sides Crossword Clue
• Ben Elton's novel Inconceivable was filmed as ____ Baby Crossword Clue
• Breed of dog with a distinctive stripe of backwards-growing fur down its spine Crossword Clue
• Capital of North Dakota, named after a European leader Crossword Clue
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote Half of a ____ Sun Crossword Clue
• City whose cathedral was painted by Monet over 30 times Crossword Clue
• Composer who had a piano "duel" with Thalberg in 1837 Crossword Clue
• Cookery writer, made a dame in 2020 Crossword Clue
• David Bowie album released two days before his death Crossword Clue
• Film character who says "greed, for lack of a better word, is good" Crossword Clue
• Geena Davis plays ____ Dickinson in a 1991 film Crossword Clue
• Home of Ichabod Crane in a Washington Irving story Crossword Clue
• "If you can't ____ in a taxi you can ____ in a huff" (Groucho Marx, Duck Soup) Crossword Clue
• Implement used for grinding in kitchens and laboratories Crossword Clue
• In Jewish cuisine, matzo balls are commonly served in this Crossword Clue
• The ____ was a sitcom about the lives of students at Rudge Park Comprehensive Crossword Clue
• Leonard ____ wrote Hallelujah, famously covered by Jeff Buckley Crossword Clue
• Literally "tiny men", as posited in philosophical and early scientific theories Crossword Clue
• ____ Maker magazine was merged into NME in 2000 Crossword Clue
• ____ Marsh, author in the "Golden Age" of detective fiction Crossword Clue
• Mathematician Kurt ____ proved both completeness and incompleteness theorems Crossword Clue
• Medical condition often prefixed with "gastro-" Crossword Clue
• Musician who created the virtual band Gorillaz with artist Jamie Hewlett Crossword Clue
• Non-technical name for a vesica Crossword Clue
• Not produced by a major label or studio Crossword Clue
• Novo Nordisk is a Danish ____ company Crossword Clue
• "Only ____ the prose and the passion" (EM Forster, Howards End) Crossword Clue
• Polynesia in the Doctor Dolittle books, for example Crossword Clue
• Proverb suggesting caution borne out of experience Crossword Clue
• Snack informally known as a "squashed-fly biscuit" Crossword Clue
• Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage takes its title from one book of this philosopher's Ethics Crossword Clue
• Sport in which Lauren Price won gold for Great Britain at the 2020 Olympics Crossword Clue
• Surname of Alfred, inventor of dynamite Crossword Clue
• The equator is an example of a ____ circle Crossword Clue
• The King's ____ was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2006 Crossword Clue
• The largest of the Outer Hebrides Crossword Clue
• The musical Sweet Charity features the song Big ____ Crossword Clue
• The only human female to appear in The Tempest Crossword Clue
• The Sopwith ____ was a First World War fighter aircraft Crossword Clue
• Unit equal to 0.2 grams Crossword Clue
• "We learned to ____, our heads flat on the beds, turned sideways, watching each other's mouths" (The Handmaid's Tale) Crossword Clue
• "Wild? I was absolutely livid!" (Rowan Atkinson as Gerald the gorilla, on ____) Crossword Clue