The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2007 06 29

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