The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 01 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sacred texts of Zoroastrianism AVESTA
____-Watt is a Scottish university focusing on science and engineering HERIOT
Track onto which goods trains may be shunted SIDING
Starter invented in 1940 by Ignacio Anaya in Coahuila, Mexico NACHOS
Someone who may give you a black eye in a café BARISTA
Winter sport combining cross-country skiing and shooting BIATHLON
____ twins develop from two separate fertilised ova FRATERNAL
Eruca sativa, grown as a salad vegetable in Italy since Roman times ROCKET
Elton John often wore oversized ____ in his Captain Fantastic persona SUNGLASSES
Currency units; common wallaroos EUROS
Comes across accidentally chances on
Beauty salon treatment including exfoliation, masks and massage FACIAL
A ____ lane may be used by heavy lorries on one side of a dual carriageway CRAWLER
A technical alternative to “flat” PLANAR
1977 Woody Allen rom-com starring Diane Keaton which won four Oscars ANNIE HALL
“____ planting” is layered potting of spring bulbs LASAGNE
A measurement of fuel efficiency Miles per gallon
Inventor of dynamite as a safe form of nitroglycerin, in 1866 Alfred Nobel
One of 20D who previously worked in film production Si King
Provisional drivers’ red-letter signs L-plates
TV cooks who travel on four wheels The Hairy Bikers
US actor who starred in Rear Window James Stewart
FALLS ASLEEP NODS OFF