The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 07 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
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
Glenn Miller hit covered by Celine Dion in 2002 AT LAST
First non-Oxbridge university to be ranked first in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide (2022 edition) Saint Andrews
Danny Boyle’s directorial debut, a 1994 Edinburgh-set black comedy Shallow Grave
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
____ played Tony Montana in Scarface Al Pacino
A ____ implant may help deaf people to perceive sounds COCHLEAR
Title held by a religious leader like a Sufi master SHEIKH
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
Specialised cutting tool, sometimes called shears tin snips
Singer who had a Superbowl “wardrobe malfunction” Janet Jackson
“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
Shipping forecast area between Lundy and Malin IRISH SEA
Second film in a franchise starring Sigourney Weaver ALIENS
New York borough containing Prospect Park BROOKLYN
Nationality of a person born in Bamako MALIAN
According to a wartime saying, American soldiers in England were “____, oversexed and over here” OVERPAID
A portable cooking appliance and food warmer HOTPLATE
1932 film in which Greta Garbo wanted “to be alone” GRAND HOTEL
“In ____, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles” (David Ben-Gurion) ISRAEL
“The ____ is political” (Feminist political slogan) PERSONAL