The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2007 09 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Part of Grace Paley's same day LATER
'Her complexion really was as pure as -- Parian marble' (Thackeray, The Virginians) SPLENDENT
A. S. Byatt's eponymous creatures in dissenting bodies INSECTS
Big lie identifies friend of Felix Salten's forest dweller THUMPER
Eligible bachelor from novel to note ELTON
Fleet assembly point in Gaul is described by Racine AULIS
The beautiful Italian Miss Wilfer BELLA
Try a cut of lamb, say ESSAY
He had the gall to cure his own blindness TOBIT
One of Kipling's brought the bread you eat STEAMER
Sporting arena associated with Masters by A. G. Macdonell? LORDS
Sort of route booked by Malraux ROYAL
Admiral holds one Scandinavian writer NIELSON
She's set on nonsense from Maupassant's freethinking uncle SOSTHENES
Spoil written work of Shakespearean vicar MARTEXT
Nurse never without her gamp SARAH
Frenzied women reform - amend as bacchantes MAENADS
Musical girl twice warned NANETTE
Victorian poet portrays animals round stream SWINBURNE
Feminist writer reportedly member of US fraternity SCHREINER
Measures taken by Kosinski STEPS
Lucian (the revised edition) is improper UNETHICAL
Land of Hope, and slightly tarnished Glory RURITANIA
Desert resort for tourists, last resort for Elijah BEERSHEBA
Cry 'ham act!' possibly, as theatre critic MACCARTHY
Capital Irish folk portrayed by Joyce DUBLINERS
Peacock character from old crone's cottage ESCOT
Only a frame for model rhythm METRE
His achievements are history TREVELYAN
Misdemeanour includes Latin from Points for Italian People SABINES
Medium-weight seventeenth-century dramatist MIDDLETON
Quotes for unreliable pie charts EPIGRAPHS