The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2026 May 31

• 1958 Hitchcock film starring James Stewart as John "Scottie" Ferguson Crossword Clue
• Actor who starred as Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) Crossword Clue
• A disease of young children; a pinkish rash caused by diseases such as measles Crossword Clue
• African capital city whose name means "new flower" Crossword Clue
• A Jewish scholar of law and doctrine Crossword Clue
• An authoritarian order Crossword Clue
• An entrance or opening; an arm of the sea Crossword Clue
• An imitation of a medicine, intended to circumvent legal restrictions Crossword Clue
• Author of Foucault's Pendulum Crossword Clue
• Bandleader who composed One O'Clock Jump Crossword Clue
• Brand name for thick textured wallpaper designed to be painted over, made since 1887 Crossword Clue
• Breakfast cereal; slang for the recreational drug ketamine Crossword Clue
• Carbohydrate from plant cell walls, which sets jams Crossword Clue
• Dadaism pioneer who painted The Elephant Celebes Crossword Clue
• English singer/songwriter whose first name means "I love" in Albanian Crossword Clue
• Eponymous Scottish nobleman in a Disraeli novel, who joins Garibaldi's army Crossword Clue
• Expanding gaseous shell around a star, named from its appearance through early telescopes Crossword Clue
• Expressions of agreement or assent Crossword Clue
• Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, subtitled The Witch's Curse Crossword Clue
• "Grammar, n. A system of ____ thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction" (The Devil's Dictionary) Crossword Clue
• "He makes his reader tremble, ____, feel the thrill of honour in a way that is the height of art" (Napoleon, on Dante) Crossword Clue
• Informally, a member of a Hindu sect founded in 1966 Crossword Clue
• Informally, one's wife, husband or partner Crossword Clue
• Internal web system also allowing some access from outside Crossword Clue
• In the UK, a compulsory component of petrol-powered cars made since 1993 Crossword Clue
• Italian for "grandmother" Crossword Clue
• The Kiss is a painting by Gustav ____ Crossword Clue
• Japanese martial art, literally "way of the sword" Crossword Clue
• Labour MP behind London's bid for 2012 Olympics Crossword Clue
• Manchester United paid ____ £19 million for Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2001 Crossword Clue
• Music accompanying the docking of a Pan Am space plane in 2001: A Space Odyssey Crossword Clue
• Odorous result of bromodosis Crossword Clue
• Official name for a licensed taxi in Britain Crossword Clue
• Oily secretion which moisturises hair and skin Crossword Clue
• On side fielding position in cricket, similar to third man on the off side Crossword Clue
• Organ to which the prefix cardio- applies Crossword Clue
• Playwright who wrote Absurd Person Singular (1972) Crossword Clue
• Predecessor of Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations Crossword Clue
• River forming the US-Mexico border from El Paso to the sea Crossword Clue
• Stage direction in A Winter's Tale just before Antigonus dies Crossword Clue
• Tenth letter of the Greek alphabet Crossword Clue
• The "bugger for the bottle" in Monty Python's Bruces' Philosophers Song Crossword Clue
• The ____ is a range of hills on the England-Scotland border Crossword Clue
• The only female Chancellor of Germany Crossword Clue
• The SI unit of ____ is the henry Crossword Clue
• The study of plant fossils Crossword Clue
• "This is the ____ / That either makes me or fordoes me" (Othello) Crossword Clue
• Title of the leader of most Ismaili Muslims Crossword Clue