The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One name for Ursa Major’s seven brightest stars The Big Dipper
Pluto’s largest satellite CHARON
Singer of Opposites Attract Paula Abdul
Surname shared by a chess-playing Akiba and a piano-playing Artur RUBINSTEIN
Tenzing Norgay, for example SHERPA
Theatrical rock star born Vincent Furnier Alice Cooper
Military slang for an arduous trek YOMP
Haematite and magnetite are mineral forms of ____ IRON OXIDE
Greek muse of epic poetry CALLIOPE
Greek hero slain by Paris ACHILLES
French biscuit named after an animal body part langue de chat
Composer of Finlandia Jean Sibelius
Himalayan cryptozoological beast YETI
Australian lizard, popular as a pet reptile bearded dragon
1988 film in which Tom Cruise plays a mixologist COCKTAIL
1957 post-nuclear Nevil Shute novel On The Beach
1940 film remade starring a bikini-clad Raquel Welch One Million BC
“How ____ to be human” (Kurt Vonnegut) EMBARRASSING
“Hey, ____, so what am I so afraid of?” (The Partridge Family) I Think I Love You
In music, performed slowly ADAGIO
Kasper Schmeichel’s nationality DANISH
Noel Gallagher once worked as a ____ for Inspiral Carpets ROADIE
What Marshall, Fender and Vox produce AMPS
Town whose football team is nicknamed The Terriers HUDDERSFIELD
Related to a career VOCATIONAL
Possessing a saw-like edge SERRATED
Nut which can spontaneously combust PISTACHIO
Bill Clinton’s vice president AL GORE
KNEECAPS PATELLAE