The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Theatrical rock star born Vincent Furnier Alice Cooper
Surname shared by a chess-playing Akiba and a piano-playing Artur RUBINSTEIN
Singer of Opposites Attract Paula Abdul
One name for Ursa Major’s seven brightest stars The Big Dipper
What Marshall, Fender and Vox produce AMPS
Town whose football team is nicknamed The Terriers HUDDERSFIELD
Nut which can spontaneously combust PISTACHIO
Tenzing Norgay, for example SHERPA
Noel Gallagher once worked as a ____ for Inspiral Carpets ROADIE
French biscuit named after an animal body part langue de chat
Composer of Finlandia Jean Sibelius
Related to a career VOCATIONAL
Australian lizard, popular as a pet reptile bearded dragon
Possessing a saw-like edge SERRATED
1957 post-nuclear Nevil Shute novel On The Beach
1940 film remade starring a bikini-clad Raquel Welch One Million BC
Pluto’s largest satellite CHARON
“Hey, ____, so what am I so afraid of?” (The Partridge Family) I Think I Love You
Military slang for an arduous trek YOMP
In music, performed slowly ADAGIO
Himalayan cryptozoological beast YETI
Haematite and magnetite are mineral forms of ____ IRON OXIDE
Greek hero slain by Paris ACHILLES
Bill Clinton’s vice president AL GORE
Greek muse of epic poetry CALLIOPE
1988 film in which Tom Cruise plays a mixologist COCKTAIL
“How ____ to be human” (Kurt Vonnegut) EMBARRASSING
KNEECAPS PATELLAE
Kasper Schmeichel’s nationality DANISH