The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2008 03 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Persian ally gets audible reward MEDE
Pre-Raphaelite father figure? PATER
Profit heard to accrue from human failing NAHUM
Secret things books left out APOCRYPHA
Pedestrian work by Bridges? APASSERBY
Secure playwright BOLT
Sort of chap not expected to be in ? Murdoch book? ACCIDENTAL
Tennyson has them 'whilring their sabres in circles of light' SCOTSGREYS
The work by Cowper TASK
Titian is, or may be seen as, among Venetian School ones INITIATORS
University men like Lyly and Marlowe had theirs about them WITS
She was 'brave as Margaret Queen / And tall as Amazon' MEGMERRILIES
Miles off target with surrogate in this COURTSHIP
Memorial for Dickens's would-be homicidal schoolmaster HEADSTONE
Leading players in Banjo Paterson's bush 15 OUTBACKERS
'Oh, why has -- privilege to lie? / And yet to be believed!' (Dryden, Oedipus) PRIESTHOOD
African Queen performed complete circle DIDO
All-round overview of Italian language OSCAN
Bereft by Berryman DISPOSSESSED
Crime writer who made his mark CAIN
Edith Wharton's gift from the grave TOUCHSTONE
Essay may be seen as sanitised rot DISSERTATION
Figured lace for Durrell girl CLEA
Jamesian father with a leaning, clearly, toward bitterness DOCTORSLOPER
Cleopatra's deliverers, like afterthought ASPS
Asimov character seen to steal book ROBOT
'It's so nice to meet a man who isn't -- about catching my beri-beri' (Dorothy Parker) SCAREDYCAT
'And Blücher, prompt and prow, / And Jean the Crown Prince --' (Hardy, Leipzig) BERNADOTTE