The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2005 12 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Thrice great Neoplatonist TRISMEGISTUS
Metier I arranged for those honourably discharged EMERITI
Passionate sort of behaviour by boy in charge BYRONIC
Club accountant TREASURER
ANGLE FISH
San Marino race track IMOLA
Once a follower, now gone before, according to Stoppard GUILDENSTERN
Dramatist Anthony provides a very loud middle act for actor Sir Antony SHAFFER
Chaps using it to come back to opera composer MENOTTI
On which a director has a swell time? SURFBOARD
Minnesota Fats prepares to play! GOESTOPOT
Wimbledon singles champion nineteen seventy five ASHE
He captained Sussex and England TEDDEXTER
Another Malvolio - full of hot air THERMAL
Brother of Rico Gear, both of them highly rated wings with the Maori All Blacks HOSEA
He spent most of his time in reflection NARCISSUS
Fabulous horse, likely to win by a nose UNICORN
'Big houses with drives and orchards and - hedges' (John Braine) MANICURED
Material constituent of anthem composer LISLE
Past Dickensian ghost CHRISTMAS
Colophon seems to claim it is a mere copy IMPRINT
Terry Spinks was a gold medallist in this Olympic division FLYWEIGHT
Vocation of Robin Maugham protagonist SERVING
Vikram Solanki was the first England cricketer to play as this type of sub SUPER
Their knots recorded by W. W. Jacobs SAILORS
Artist working his way through collage RAUSCHENBERG
Alternatively exited, say, like one deceived by Tartuffe ORGON
Terrible home lap for mistress of Herakles OMPHALE
A walk for Maugham's Liza? LAMBETH
Possibly a bareknuckle encounter FISTFIGHT
Pooters' neighbour was a monster GRIFFIN
'His adherents, consisting most of dissolute Swordsmen and Suburb --s' (Milton, Eikonoklastes) ROISTER
Poems rewritten for old salts EPSOM
Roger Bannister made athletics history over one thousand, seven hundred and sixty of them YARDS
Wilde husband with broken forebear - an impractical type IDEALISER
Uplifting experience for Salinger's artisans RAISING
The Misfortunes of Nigel, an importer of statuary ELGIN
The Great Hunting - (Bruno Greensleave) SPIDERS
Princely character from Hilton's scattered crop RAINIER
Pop artist said to be in the principality LICHTENSTEIN