The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2024 03 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A ____ baby is a problem aggravated by attempts to solve it TAR
Sweet rice wine used in Japanese cookery MIRIN
In ice hockey, Manchester Storm play home games in ____ ALTRINCHAM
Video game character portrayed in film by Angelina Jolie Lara Croft
A negatively charged particle ELECTRON
“____ by Sir Walter Scott” is an anagram of “A novel by a Scottish writer” IVANHOE
Old testament dry measure of around 33 litres EPHAH
RELATED BY BLOOD CONSANGUINE
Socially confident and outgoing EXTROVERTED
Turtle-like character featured in Mario video games since 1985 Koopa Troopa
Afrikaans word meaning infantrymen, pedestrians, or young locusts voetgangers
Madonna’s second album Like a Virgin
EARACHE OTALGIA
Symbolic barrier named by Winston Churchill IRON CURTAIN
Film noir’s first female director (The Hitch-Hiker, 1953) Ida Lupino
Iced tea and lemonade drink named after a US golfer ARNOLD PALMER
Unesco world heritage site where Ansel Adams took some of his best-known photographs yosemite national park
The Muslim equivalent of “God willing” INSHALLAH
480 grains OUNCE
Tony Abbott’s predecessor as prime minister of Australia Kevin Rudd
There are 2.54 ____ in one inch CENTIMETRES
International music competition first held in 1956 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
Suffix used in some ordinal numbers and archaic verb forms ETH
Common last movement of a sonata or concerto RONDO
Derogatory slang term for a farm worker Swede-basher
Plunging into a liquid IMMERSING
“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness! / Rival in crime and falsehood, ____ all / The wanton horrors of her bloody play” (Shelley) APING
Result of just two cricket test matches to date TIE
A whole number INTEGER
THE WINDPIPE TRACHEA
Actress who was Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques sketches Celia Imrie