The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 06 18

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