The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 01 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sacred texts of Zoroastrianism AVESTA
Winter sport combining cross-country skiing and shooting BIATHLON
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
____ twins develop from two separate fertilised ova FRATERNAL
____-Watt is a Scottish university focusing on science and engineering HERIOT
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
FALLS ASLEEP NODS OFF
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