The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2004 09 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Time to hire detective GENEVA
Pitch examination? TEST
Classics winner Frankie, but not Dettori DURR
Steinbeck's little gem THEPEARL
They often get rapped PADS
Marino DAN
Pye's stage queen ADELAIDE
Spirit needing plenty of water ONDINE
A scrapper may end up in it HEAP
Premises vacated by Blackwood EMPTYHOUSE
'The de'il's away wi' him', said Burns EXCISEMAN
Average score is made by Trojan prince PARIS
Information on Stowe character in Switzerland CHANDLER
Cliff Thorburn's nickname GRINDER
Common position for Schumacher POLE
'She approaches; she is _' (Wilde) NIGH
Some erratic protagonists of Harold Frederic MARCHHARES
Finish alternative home for witch ENDOR
Statesman was pilgrim's weight NASHE
Short amusing piece, or teatime cod, perhaps COMEDIETTA
Eliminate ages before start of epoch ERASE
Some of his impressions of Rome are evergreen RESPIGHI
His fellow-traveller was an ass ROGUEMALE
Fleming's was from Tartary NEWS
David, ex-Arsenal, Man United and Scotland HERD
Field placings for Flintoff! SCATTERED
Shakespearean nightmare CACODEMON
Household words for dangerous quarry PALMERSTON
His traveller was unfortunate MARTINEAU
A creation of seventeen, and reported friend of Shelley TRELAWNEY
Holloway at Shepherd's Bush IAN
Route taken by Fleur Adcock SCENIC
Many manage right crime writer STEVENSON
Durrell character in debacle at Cairo CLEA
Vince, who lost his British middleweight title to Dick Turpin HAWKINS