The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2008 10 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Pert as Pitter's potato? RUDE
Exist after the queen in Boeotia THEBE
Eppie, as in Civil Service CASS
'... smoke to roll / In dusky -- ?reluctant flames ...' (Paradise Lost) WREATHS
An unhelpful name could -- one into nothing, thought Tristram Shandy NCCDDMMSS
Architectural form of broadsheet's page? OCTASTYLE
Astronomers may well act according to him AOYLE
Damn an altered version with Clark Kent by Shaw MANANDSUPERMAN
Battalion of which 1 Across believed his wife to be Colour Sergeant NONPAREIL
Collins villain keeping ballerina's ?support back for composer FERRAEOSCO
Cornerpiece of Kafka's oeuvre THECASTLE
Like their forebears, they were ?defiantly anti 10s EPIGONI
Men's registries reorganized to ?accommodate burgher poets MEISTERSINGERS
Mike Leigh's loony lefties surely premature? NUTS
Mrs Gaskell's reported account of swains that commend? SYLVIASLOVERS
Friend of Apollo terminated by frisbee HYACINTHUS
His work was in the devil of a state BURGESS
Imagine the Sassoon show PICTURE
Gradated vowels, but alas radically changed ALLUUSS
Controversial dramatist (he is confused with ban) EHANN
I am no substitute for Mrs Mitchison NAOMI
It's haunting Texas, Leiber tells us SPECTRE
Hungarian writer having a ball BIRO
Steadfast as Shadwell's relict TRUE
Strange Lido apparition, as he seemed to Von Aschenbach IDOL
The last one of Kirk Douglas was in Brooklyn TANGO
Toll collector has catch at trap in Bleak House MATTHEWBAGNET
The Bells BRONTES
'The vote ... means nothing to women. We should be --' (Edna O'Brien) ARMED
Works played in person at a social club SONATAS