The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 07 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Second film in a franchise starring Sigourney Weaver ALIENS
Title held by a religious leader like a Sufi master SHEIKH
Name for Gabriel Syme in a 1908 GK Chesterton novel THURSDAY
Member of a left-wing society founded in 1884, named after a Roman general known as Cunctator FABIAN
Billy Joel hit covered by Westlife in 2001 Uptown Girl
Actor nominated for Oscars for roles in The English Patient and Schindler’s List Ralph Fiennes
According to a wartime saying, American soldiers in England were “____, oversexed and over here” OVERPAID
A ____ implant may help deaf people to perceive sounds COCHLEAR
A portable cooking appliance and food warmer HOTPLATE
A more common term for potassium carbonate POTASH
A brandy made from morello cherry juice KIRSCH
1997 Booker prize winner, for The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Danny Boyle’s directorial debut, a 1994 Edinburgh-set black comedy Shallow Grave
First non-Oxbridge university to be ranked first in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide (2022 edition) Saint Andrews
“Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a ____” (Blondie) Heart Of Glass
“Oh I want to take you home / I want to give you children / You might be my ____, yeah” (Pulp) GIRLFRIEND
“In ____, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles” (David Ben-Gurion) ISRAEL
Glenn Miller hit covered by Celine Dion in 2002 AT LAST
____ played Tony Montana in Scarface Al Pacino
Specialised cutting tool, sometimes called shears tin snips
Singer who had a Superbowl “wardrobe malfunction” Janet Jackson
Shipping forecast area between Lundy and Malin IRISH SEA
New York borough containing Prospect Park BROOKLYN
Nationality of a person born in Bamako MALIAN
1932 film in which Greta Garbo wanted “to be alone” GRAND HOTEL
“The ____ is political” (Feminist political slogan) PERSONAL