The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Pestilential or vexatious plaguey
The radial supports of a wheel SPOKES
The heroine of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ODETTE
Full range of colours displayable on a computer monitor GAMUT
French footballer who has played for Manchester United, Juventus, Manchester United and (currently) Juventus Paul Pogba
Flies into a rage, colloquially goes ballistic
The company formerly called Facebook, Inc META
Support staff, as it were CRUTCH
Behavioural stimulus which makes avoidance of a situation more likely negative reinforcement
Steals fruit from gardens or orchards scrumps
1957 film based on an event in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 Gunfight At The OK Corral
1912 Conan Doyle novel featuring zoologist Professor George Edward Challenger The Lost World
Someone who studies trees DENDROLOGIST
McVitie’s biscuits launched in 1985 HOBNOBS
Iconic Coronation Street character played by Pat Phoenix Elsie Tanner
Many residents of ____ speak a dialect called Llanito GIBRALTAR
Microwave amplifier often used in atomic clocks MASER
Genus of tropical grasses which includes rice ORYZA
CRESCENT-SHAPED LUNATE
A cave-dweller TROGLODYTE
“Christmas Eve 9st 4, alcohol units 1 ____ glass of sherry, cigarettes 2 but no fun as out of window” (Bridget Jones’s Diary) MEASLY
FEW AND FAR BETWEEN SPARSE
10 NEWTONS MEGADYNE
Fictional weapon which first appeared in 1977 LIGHTSABER