The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2007 06 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Poisonous plant which may have seemed amusing to sixteenth-century Florentines LAMANDRAGOLA
'Wretched woman ... tied / By wild illicit ties, to ---s vile' (Browning, Bells and Pomegranates) LOSEL
Heroic points of silent woman EPICENE
The French five in confinement, revealed by Sydney-born writer CLAVELL
There's more to it than meets the eye in philosophical device Bergson suggested ICEBERG
Verne tourist whose other name also seems impenetrable PHILEAS
Some of his work was beyond good and evil NIETZSCHE
Sackful at Livery Company banquet presented by Winston Graham THELOVINGCUP
Roman careers VITAE
Prizewinning tragedian of Eretria, seemingly taking the name of all Greeks in Homer's day ACHAEUS
Cronin's type of gardener trained at Mottram's farm? SPANISH
Eliot's hero unexpectedly adorned DERONDA
Eminent Spanish composer pales into insignificance ESPLA
Empirical knowledge from the North-east is ignorance NESCIENCE
Fictional detective's fictional detective wife said to be vain HARRIET
French writer (inwardly hard), describes spring lamb PASCHAL
Hard to believe that the Bunuel-Dali film was inspired by Grahame's stories THEGOLDENAGE
Internal rhyme in which poet may take pride? LEONINE
Keats found December thus nighted DREAR
Can Cole cunningly give a good hiding? CONCEAL
Novelist in a hurry with gambler's toy RUSHDIE
Sherborne author whose riddles remain ALDHELM
Bradford book mothered Dahl, in a way HOLDTHEDREAM
'He would fire a few rounds, and check the ---' (V. Canning, The Kingsford Mark) ZEROING
James - a fast mover (inwardly inferior), father of contrasting daughters HARLOWE
Not wearing so much for Ionesco piece? THELESSON
Morley Callahan's Peggy, 'a kind of saint', thought Edmund Wilson SANDERSON
Leave church to take it easy around big company LAICIZE