The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2005 09 23

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