The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 06 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The colourful badlands of Arizona Painted Desert
Singer whose most recent non-compilation album Caution was released in 2018 Mariah Carey
The first études written for public performance were ____s piano piece
The mafia’s code of silence OMERTA
The misspeaking character in The Rivals by Sheridan Mrs Malaprop
In old military slang, a kit inspection rag-fair
____ and Mark Frost were co-creators of Twin Peaks David Lynch
Vacation centred on conservation ECOTOUR
The ____ Star is a 1970 David Bowie single, released as a follow-up to Space Oddity PRETTIEST
Nigeria’s capital until 1991 LAGOS
New Mexico city where Microsoft was founded in 1975 ALBUQUERQUE
Mix of raw vegetables served as an hors d’oeuvre CRUDITES
In fiction, Melville’s Captain Ahab or Dickens’s Silas Wegg AMPUTEE
The only American state bird which is a domestic breed RHODE ISLAND RED
To signify or foreshadow BETOKEN
To go before, in time or order ANTECEDE
Gabriel and Raphael, for example ARCHANGELS
Actress who starred alongside Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan Rosanna Arquette
A family tree STEMMA
Grange Hill character, played by Todd Carty, who was given his own spin-off series TUCKER JENKINS
As a musical instruction, becoming slower, and often louder too ALLARGANDO
A cold leek and potato soup VICHYSSOISE
1983 film directed by and starring Barbra Streisand YENTL
12:50 TEN TO ONE