The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Genus of tropical grasses which includes rice ORYZA
The heroine of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ODETTE
Iconic Coronation Street character played by Pat Phoenix Elsie Tanner
Full range of colours displayable on a computer monitor GAMUT
10 NEWTONS MEGADYNE
Support staff, as it were CRUTCH
McVitie’s biscuits launched in 1985 HOBNOBS
1912 Conan Doyle novel featuring zoologist Professor George Edward Challenger The Lost World
Steals fruit from gardens or orchards scrumps
Flies into a rage, colloquially goes ballistic
French footballer who has played for Manchester United, Juventus, Manchester United and (currently) Juventus Paul Pogba
1957 film based on an event in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 Gunfight At The OK Corral
Someone who studies trees DENDROLOGIST
A cave-dweller TROGLODYTE
CRESCENT-SHAPED LUNATE
The radial supports of a wheel SPOKES
Many residents of ____ speak a dialect called Llanito GIBRALTAR
The company formerly called Facebook, Inc META
“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
Pestilential or vexatious plaguey
Behavioural stimulus which makes avoidance of a situation more likely negative reinforcement
Fictional weapon which first appeared in 1977 LIGHTSABER
Microwave amplifier often used in atomic clocks MASER