The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2008 07 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Some of the old 'ranks of Tuscany' ETRUSCANS
Sad, Orphic, disordered, yet exalted RHAPSODIC
Outrage decrees at random DESECRATE
Garrison affair? RUMBA
Flooring damaged in technique employed by Picasso? DIRECT
Itches badly - due to philosophical study of morals ETHICS
How superior actor operates? UPSTAGES
He is with little brother, new in hisoric West Bank city HEBRON
Irish-American JP and novelist DONLEAVY
'The beaks of these vessels are like the ancient Roman ---' (John Evelyn, Sixteen-forty-five) ROSTRUMS
Tale in miscellany seen to bring inevitable consequence ENTAIL
Possibly main land of Greece immortalized by Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor RADIO
'Nicol Jarvie is my name, I am a ---, be praised for the honour' (Scott, Rob Roy) KARENINA
Lord Lytton's money said to ensure her a companion's role CLARA
Ms Blixen, perhaps, in a protagonist of Tolstoy LUCID
Best part of Cabell's joke CREAM
Dance for curious graduate LINOCUT
Clasped by Tennyson's raptor CRAG
Carol Rumens's straight way of getting her number AVEMARIA
Bedlam masterpiece includes old feast LAMMAS
Associated with works by Brian Aldiss EARTH
'--- ---! 'tis the hour of love!' (Byron, Don Juan) TENNESSEE
State name of playwright MINISTER
Updike's latterday legendary figure CALDWELL
What Simon created strangely helped out Doc THEODDCOUPLE
Overcame Osborne's hero for daughter of The Cenci BEATRICE
Polish operatic theme touched on by Milton PARADISELOST
Prime subject of Hall Caine BAILIE
Reportedly fit to be told by Iris Murdoch THEBELL