The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 10

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