The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 06 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA BACILLI
Second largest of Jupiter’s satellites CALLISTO
The only Spanish actress to have won an Oscar Penelope Cruz
Viverrine which preys on snakes and rats MONGOOSE
Where news stories are edited COPYDESK
Poetically, a precious metal ORE
Pickled flower buds used as a garnish CAPERS
Parisian fashion house owned by Puig since 1998 NINA RICCI
LONG-LIMBED LEGGY
In zoology, pregnant GRAVID
Free-standing pieces of abstract art STABILES
Finger food in Fuengirola TAPAS
Familiarly, Janet Hubert’s character in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Aunt Viv
Faction involved in political intrigue CABAL
Dickens character; a rock band formed in London in 1969 Uriah Heep
Chant of a Hindu religious sect Hare Krishna
BAGUETTES French sticks
Alpine expert whose name means “inhabitant of an eastern country” SHERPA
Alessandro and his son Domenico ____ were Italian composers SCARLATTI
Abracadabra or hocus-pocus INCANTATION
A high official under Ottoman rule VIZIER
____ may be considered a political all-rounder IMRAN KHAN
That which uses pre-paid return envelopes business reply service
Singer whose real name was Arnold Dorsey Engelbert Humperdinck
Siberian ____, which is actually extracted from pine trees, can be used as chewing gum and an incense ingredient cedar resin
Short name for an anti-racism movement founded in 2013 BLM
Informal name (reflecting a former location) of a team recently relegated from EFL League One MK Dons