The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2025 Dec 07

• 1980s BBC TV show which introduced Lenny Henry's character Delbert Wilkins Crossword Clue
• 2005 Foo Fighters single with the line "Been a pleasure, but the pleasure's been mine, all mine" Crossword Clue
• Actor who played Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It (1991) Crossword Clue
• A maid ____ was often the only servant in a Victorian household Crossword Clue
• An ____ estate rehouses people from overpopulated urban areas Crossword Clue
• Antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming Crossword Clue
• A possible reply to "Comment allez-vous?" Crossword Clue
• Astronauts returned to Earth in an Apollo spacecraft's ____ Crossword Clue
• Australasian name for a phalanger, a small marsupial Crossword Clue
• BBC sketch show, originally called Sacred Cows Crossword Clue
• British Boxer who became the WBC world heavyweight champion in 1995 Crossword Clue
• British rock band whose albums Silent Alarm and Four reached No 3 in the album charts Crossword Clue
• Canadian city which hosted the 1978 Commonwealth Games Crossword Clue
• "Charm ____ to the essence of the person or thing endowed with it. It cannot be acquired" (Alfred Austin) Crossword Clue
• Cigarettes, informally Crossword Clue
• Detroit Tigers center fielder, 1905-26, often included in lists of top ten all-time baseball players Crossword Clue
• Goldfinch relative with yellow and black plumage Crossword Clue
• Guillemots and puffins are members of the ____ family Crossword Clue
• Ice cream, cake and meringue dessert sometimes called omelette surprise Crossword Clue
• In engraving, the opposite of relief Crossword Clue
• Informally, broke or exhausted Crossword Clue
• Innermost sacred space of a Greek temple Crossword Clue
• In Russia, a long multi-lane urban street Crossword Clue
• "I think, therefore I am" comes from this treatise by René Descartes Crossword Clue
• "I ____ / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing" (Seamus Heaney) Crossword Clue
• "I've taken myself to the edges of life my way. And ____" (Slash, Guns N' Roses guitarist) Crossword Clue
• Key which is usually below CVBNM Crossword Clue
• "____ Laudamus" is the beginning of this hymn sung in matins services Crossword Clue
• Light building brick made from cinders, sand and cement Crossword Clue
• Low stool, originally in the shape of a drum Crossword Clue
• Many plants in this rose family genus are called cinquefoil Crossword Clue
• Nokia's headquarters are in this Finnish city, close to Helsinki Crossword Clue
• North America's Ursus arctos horribilis Crossword Clue
• Rarely used name for a lowly employee, with four consecutive double letters Crossword Clue
• Sailing vessel with one mast and usually two sails Crossword Clue
• Snooker foul which may follow John Virgo saying "Where's the cue ball going?" Crossword Clue
• South American plain (usually pluralised in English) Crossword Clue
• "Speak not, ____ not, do not answer me" (Romeo and Juliet) Crossword Clue
• Symbol representing the Holy Trinity, eg in architecture Crossword Clue
• Tashkent is the capital of ____ Crossword Clue
• That which develops from a zygote Crossword Clue
• The 2nd Baron Rothschild's taxidermy collection in this Hertfordshire town is a Natural History Museum outpost Crossword Clue
• The first Hispanic woman to win an Oscar, for her role in West Side Story (1961) Crossword Clue
• The Greek goddess of peace Crossword Clue
• The rock climbing sites Half Dome and El Capitan are in ____ Crossword Clue
• The UK's first town with a fully pedestrianised town centre Crossword Clue
• The visual appearance of text Crossword Clue
• Wistfully mournful Crossword Clue