The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2008 07 25

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