The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2007 08 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Some of Terence Rattigan's leading lights FLAREPATH
Thackeray's naive girl who had a sharp friend VAISHNAVA
'The Englishwoman is so refined / She has no -- and no behind' (Stevie Smith) BOSOL
Setting of Cooper book, ashore as well BARDOLPH
Nymph's laurel is hardy DAPHNE
A cony-catching rascal with a bulbous red nose PLANET
It may be over when the overweight soprano offers it ARIA
Something lacy I adapted for old coastal region LYCIA
Well-founded by Isaac SPREAD
'Wide -- the battle in the plain' (Scott, Marmion) RAGED
Virginia has vain reform for Hindu sectarian IAMBS
Morgan leading character, boxer's boy REHOBOTH
Pole apart for Byron and Pushkin MAZEPPA
Short cut to useful invention for Sir Gawain verse form AYRSHIRE
His poems contained French wisdom VERLAINE
Importunes no matter which playwright DUNSANY
No Haydn I played suggested Hungarian pianist DOHNANYI
Is fairy queen confused within these measures? ALISON
Body of Holst's work GRETA
Baptist's father at a loss for words MOLLFLANDERS
Her lover was said to be constant STAEL
Jellicoe's mad mother ZACHARIAH
Lambeth girl in first novel LIZA
It was a game to Deighton BERLIN
John Galt was interested in its legatees AFLOAT
Extended description of Margaret Kennedy offering BOBWHEEL
Gérard de Nerval's was gallant LABOHEME
Gala at reportedly distant crossing by Priestley FESTIVAL
Grave and serious work of James Herbert SEPULCHRE