The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The Roman goddess of agriculture CERES
____ Pig is Porky Pig’s girlfriend PETUNIA
Serving to constrain INHIBITIVE
Malware which is disguised as standard software TROJAN
In Jane Austen’s Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates’s ____ NIECE
French car manufacturer, nationalised in 1945 and privatised in 1996 RENAULT
Drainage area occupying around 10 per cent of Africa’s area Nile Basin
Copper ore sometimes used ornamentally MALACHITE
British golfer who was ranked world No 1 for a total of 97 weeks Nick Faldo
Actor who played Private Pike in Dad’s Army Ian Lavender
From Latin for “nest”, focuses of infection in medicine niduses
If I ____, I don’t know how to answer or what to do am stumped
Is uncritically fond of (someone) dotes on
Large round storage devices used in 1960s and 1970s computing (US spelling) disk packs
Optical device designed to have minimal spherical aberration fresnel lens
The Mississippi as represented in song Old Man River
Welsh rock band fronted by Kelly Jones STEREOPHONICS
A person given counsel ADVISEE
“Friends and colleagues all ____ looked at us, treated us, slightly differently” (Neil Armstrong) of a sudden
Having no date for resumption SINE DIE
… and what Ronnie Barker actually wanted handles for forks
Tex-Mex dish often served sizzling on a platter FAJITAS