The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 03 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Turtle-like character featured in Mario video games since 1985 Koopa Troopa
Tony Abbott’s predecessor as prime minister of Australia Kevin Rudd
Video game character portrayed in film by Angelina Jolie Lara Croft
There are 2.54 ____ in one inch CENTIMETRES
The Muslim equivalent of “God willing” INSHALLAH
Symbolic barrier named by Winston Churchill IRON CURTAIN
Madonna’s second album Like a Virgin
International music competition first held in 1956 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
Unesco world heritage site where Ansel Adams took some of his best-known photographs yosemite national park
Iced tea and lemonade drink named after a US golfer ARNOLD PALMER
Film noir’s first female director (The Hitch-Hiker, 1953) Ida Lupino
Derogatory slang term for a farm worker Swede-basher
Common last movement of a sonata or concerto RONDO
Afrikaans word meaning infantrymen, pedestrians, or young locusts voetgangers
Actress who was Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques sketches Celia Imrie
A ____ baby is a problem aggravated by attempts to solve it TAR
A whole number INTEGER
A negatively charged particle ELECTRON
RELATED BY BLOOD CONSANGUINE
Plunging into a liquid IMMERSING
“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness! / Rival in crime and falsehood, ____ all / The wanton horrors of her bloody play” (Shelley) APING
Old testament dry measure of around 33 litres EPHAH
In ice hockey, Manchester Storm play home games in ____ ALTRINCHAM
Sweet rice wine used in Japanese cookery MIRIN
Suffix used in some ordinal numbers and archaic verb forms ETH
Socially confident and outgoing EXTROVERTED
Result of just two cricket test matches to date TIE
EARACHE OTALGIA
480 grains OUNCE
“____ by Sir Walter Scott” is an anagram of “A novel by a Scottish writer” IVANHOE
THE WINDPIPE TRACHEA