The Times Specialist 2008 12 05 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Repository for Elia's poems	ALBUM
'...take care of your -- , for if ever you are made fast to her poop... she'll make every beam in her body crack!' (Smollett, Peregrine Pickle)	UPPERWORKS
'Hie thee to hell for shame and leave this world / Thou --' (King Richard III)	CACOCEMON
Cleaner character from Vonnegut?	HOOVER
Doctrinal work might offer us art	SUTRA
Occasional word new at one time	NONCE
On Monday, a model friend to louche genius	SARA
Prince seeks alternatives in Ring hoard	IGOR
Noah myth was all Greek to him	DEUCALION
Mary Renault's edict from the sea?	BULL
Job's counsellor in a novel I humbly quote	ELIHU
Possibly ancient as a Biblical race	CANAANITES
Hesse's ruined maiden	CANAAN
Hesse is at pains to show sensitivity	AESTHESIS
Ganymede 'lodged' in Shakespeare's memory	ROSALYNDE
Professor Rodney Whitaker's permit on the Eiger	SANCTION
Blair alternatively fit	ORWELL
Where readers may find ammunition in reserve	MAGAZINE
Waugh's arctophile	SEBASTIAN
'I'd sooner be robbed by a tall man who showed me a bit of steel / Than be fleeced by a sneaking --' (Sir Alfred Lyall, The Old Pindaree)	BABOO
The Master Builder, so to speak, of detective fiction	NASON
Start of century to fuel up inspiration for historians	CLIO
Science fiction writer islanded in New York	STATEN
Relative of Dickens's surgeon is an untidy woman	SLAMMERKIN
His musical achievement was incidental, a sort of landslide	ADDINSELL
Married woman, superb that is, as bishop's lady	MRSPROUDIE
Playwright as graduate's vocalist	MASSINGER
Donna showing skill in race	TARTT
'Methinks our best wisdom lies in the -- ' (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Leila)	SWORDARM
Laurentian flute symbolically broken	AARONSROD
Pyncheon coveted his home - and gave it a multifaceted roof	MAULE
Uses words out of place - so heard to drop out for a while	MISTERMS