The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2004 12 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Issue of Pearl Buck SONS
Should that not be fewer means for Bennett's Hilda? HOTELDULAC
Novelist seen to make haste with gambler's toy RUSHDIE
'Passions spin the plot: / We are __ by what is false within' (Meredith, Modern Love) HESPERIDES
What the rising jockey does first SADDLESUP
Boccaccio's tragic Florentine girl with macabre skill in herb cultivation ISABELLA
Repeated undertakings from Neil Simon PROMISES
Ramsey Street residents not known to Sir Charles Roberts NEIGHBOURS
Character associated with art by Mrs Inchbald LESSWAYS
Like Eliot's readers of the Evening Transcript BOSTONIANS
It is the centre of attention each year WIMBLEDON
Versifiers - one accepted writer, and some late bloomers SARUMUSE
Nickname of Dillard,legendary Olympic sprint and hurdles gold medallist BONES
Harem I turned inside out to find Dream girl HERMIA
Feared relegation spiral DOWNWARDS
Did they get England hopping mad at Twickenham last month? WALLABIES
John Dickson Carr's sort of niche HAGS
Injured sheep transported to the Islands of the Blessed POETASTERS
Swiss affair? Mush be shum mishtake ROMANSCH
Lear knew him well enough, and his name GLOUCESTER
A wild, cutting shot SLASH
He was not depressed by a blue period BETRAYED
School's wish mentioned in Dickensian constituency EATANSWILL
FENCING ATTACK LUNGE
Reported war diarist EVELYN
Football ties LACES
He remains England's most famous hat-trick hero HURST
Leaders of Lauderdale and Nithsdale gentry identify Scottish poet PICASSO
The tale rewritten as Long-Distance Runner, possibly ATHLETE
Our chart, reoriented, locates Wycherley's false cleric HARCOURT
He is to be propitiated by every single feller SILVANUS
Perpetual motion player's motto? NEVERSTOP
Back-rhyme, say, for potentate EMIR
'The __ - __ beetle with his drowsy hums' (Macbeth) SHARDBORNE
The last England striker to score five MACDONALD
A minor title SUBHEAD
Operetta maid OK after operation MIKADO