The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2022 07 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One who may operate on a glaucoma eye surgeon
Not profitable UNECONOMIC
Imperial measure — one quarter of a bushel PECK
Formal word for physical beauty PULCHRITUDE
“People are dying. Entire ____s are collapsing.” (Greta Thunberg, 2019) ECOSYSTEM
Footballer who became England’s youngest-ever senior player in May 2006 Theo Walcott
The number of sides of a hendecagon ELEVEN
Adjective describing an airborne military force PARATROOP
British acronym for a possible cause of a railway accident SPAD
Lacking space, especially oppressively closed-in
BBC cookery programme originally hosted by Loyd Grossman MASTERCHEF
Inhabitants of India’s smallest state GOANESE
US vice president when Jimmy Carter was president WALTER MONDALE
Common first word in names of French publishing firms EDITIONS
The St John’s wort genus HYPERICUM
John le Carré novel which concluded his Karla Trilogy Smiley's People
In English, a letter such as W and Y, sometimes L and R semivowel
A supplier of news or foreign exchange BUREAU
EXCESSIVE IN QUANTITY SUPERABUNDANT
Title shared by singles by Sheena Easton in 1980 and Meat Loaf in 1984 Modern Girl
Attempt to punch (someone) swing at
Fictional band fronted by guitarist Nigel Tufnel Spinal Tap
Informally, to fly into a rage GO BALLISTIC
Not explored by adventurers, and an anagram of ADVENTURERS untraversed
Informally, very intoxicated pie-eyed
The quality of being deadly LETHALITY
Loose dresses worn by Hawaiian women, eg at weddings MUUMUUS
Commonest name for an international law enforcement agency formed in 1998 EUROPOL