The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2005 09 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Delahoya, a true prize fighter OSCAR
Where Coventry Blaze are at home ICERINK
Illuminating feature of Patrick Hamilton play GASLAMPS
Anonymous writers of classic drama? GHOSTS
What all rugby teams set out to do SCOREATRY
For example, Coppard's The Black Dog, Jameson's The Green Man and Iain Banks's The Bridge INNSIGNS
They inter George, the literary scholar and critic SAINTS
As made by the over-confident comp-etitor, perhaps BOAST
'Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows / That - of her clothes' (Herrick) LIQUEFACTION
It's often raised in triumph THUMB
Michael Owen's latest squad number TEN
Eulogy for terribly pricey nag (possibly racing? Yep!) PANEGYRIC
Washington author who wrote is Life IRVING
Pre-season football tournament that you might expect to be played in Milan INTERTOTO
An attractive medium for Frank Richards MAGNET
Manipulative character in old-hat novel SVENGALI
French artist and prime minister get together to produce kidnap victim - one of Shaws DAVIDBALFOUR
Matching the record EQUALLING
Mariners who netted Spurs GRIMSBY
Poet seen in Eastern port with a sample of his work MACAULAY
Borne by Noyes and Kelly characters TORCH
Ten second finishes KNOCKOUTS
French writer spotted carnivore GENET
'The lily maid of Astolat' ELAINE
A pious impression by Thomas a Kempis IMITATION
Welsh knight appears in Dallas PERCIVAL
Goad the opponent TAUNT
Composer's rumoured finish SIBELIUS
Trouble in French literature as part of token nuisance ENNUI
Possibly in Dauphin's sacred book UPANISHAD
Depart as new writers of screen versions ADAPTERS
Team ones are delivered at half-time TALKS
Full figure achieved by Yeats THEHOURGLASS
Marketplace, part of long-ago rallying point AGORA
Current unit greeting at playhouse arena AMPHITHEATRE
Retired policeman indicates disturbance out of hand on river POIROT
Historic boxing organisation founded by the Marquis of Queensbury in eighteen ninety one NSC
It gives cover, for Middle Eastern flight CARPET
As in company by John Ash CASINO
Lean appearance of Lancaster? GAUNTNESS
Big girl from Uranus TITANESS