The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2025 Nov 30

• 1973 action film, mainly set on an opium lord's private island Crossword Clue
• Actor banned from entering China for about 19 years after starring in Seven Years in Tibet (1997) Crossword Clue
• Actor whose character was unhappy about being given the name Mr Pink in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs Crossword Clue
• A participant in 21st-century auctions Crossword Clue
• A Polynesian flower garland Crossword Clue
• A thin and mostly uniform layer of high-altitude cloud Crossword Clue
• At Lincoln Cathedral, the Dean's Eye is a ____ Crossword Clue
• Author of The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) Crossword Clue
• British Paralympian who, aged 13, won two golds in Beijing in 2008 and now often appears as a BBC sport pundit Crossword Clue
• Cardiff, London and Norwich have administrative buildings with this name Crossword Clue
• "Conscience is a stern monitor, but […] has been superseded by […] the right of ____" (John Henry Newman) Crossword Clue
• Country the US invaded during Operation Just Cause Crossword Clue
• Dishes of thin pastry, filled with fruit or something savoury Crossword Clue
• "Do as you would be done by" is the "golden ____" Crossword Clue
• European city seen as the cradle of Western civilisation Crossword Clue
• Flying dinosaurs whose name means "winged finger" Crossword Clue
• Fruity joke: "Where do baby apes sleep? In ____" Crossword Clue
• Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray, Berkshire Crossword Clue
• In Greek myth, Stheno and Euryale's petrifying sister Crossword Clue
• In most western churches, ____ is on November 1st Crossword Clue
• The ____ of the Traveling Pants is a 2005 coming-of-age comedy Crossword Clue
• Jukebox musical based on the songs of Queen Crossword Clue
• Life preservers named after supposed similarity to a US film star's figure when inflated Crossword Clue
• Light-sensitive compound with the chemical formula AgI, used in pre-digital photography Crossword Clue
• Linnaeus wrongly put ____ and Pelargonium into one genus Crossword Clue
• Maggi Hambling's sculptural tribute to Benjamin Britten, on Aldeburgh beach, represents a ____ Crossword Clue
• Marmitey-flavoured stick-shaped snack Crossword Clue
• "Never ____ new experiences, they enrich the mind" (Margaret Mitchell) Crossword Clue
• Nine of these failed to hit their mark in the Women's Euro 2025 England v Sweden quarter-final Crossword Clue
• Nocturnal primate, with long and thin middle fingers Crossword Clue
• One preface of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations quoted a reviser mentioning "huge snowdrifts" of this poet Crossword Clue
• Original surname of a writer mentioned in this puzzle Crossword Clue
• Pencil-moustached vagrant played by Charlie Chaplin Crossword Clue
• Plant whose seeds are used to make the paste tahini Crossword Clue
• Robert ____ directed The Player and Gosford Park Crossword Clue
• Siberian area where Earth's largest impact event in recorded history, possibly an asteroid explosion, took place in 1908 Crossword Clue
• Sine, cosine, and tangent are basic functions in ____ Crossword Clue
• Spiked torture device, almost certainly a Victorian rather than medieval invention Crossword Clue
• Television character, partner of Hopkirk (Deceased) Crossword Clue
• Term for the moon's furthest orbital point from Earth Crossword Clue
• The book with the longest chapter in the Bible Crossword Clue
• The French word for "true" Crossword Clue
• "The ____ of big government is over" (Bill Clinton) Crossword Clue
• The opposite of "fictive" Crossword Clue
• The term "bunny boiler" comes from ____'s role in Fatal Attraction Crossword Clue
• Titular female character of a 1722 Daniel Defoe work Crossword Clue
• Treebeard is one such creature in Lord of the Rings Crossword Clue
• Unusual, or unusually good Crossword Clue
• US singer whose second studio album was Missundaztood Crossword Clue
• Word that can be preceded and followed by "tone" Crossword Clue