The Times Specialist 2008 12 26 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
One of Koch's big guns?	BERTHA
'Satirists, if they escape the scourges of the law, have reason to dread the cane of the __' (D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature)	SATIRISED
A cousin of Mary Cowden Clarke	IRON
Rugby man, perhaps, in commedia dell'arte	HARLEQUIN
Slow transport for big book	OMNIBUS
They were nice for Rachel Billington, having been considered by Chesterton	ALLTHINGS
Writer's alter ego as millionaire banker	SIDONIA
Black 'wight of Mucklestane Moor'	DWARF
Out of town provenance of H. C. Bailey protagonist	SUBURB
Niven's star performance	NEUTRON
Thomas Moore offers the French corner piece in ruined hall	LALLAROOKH
might have hoped for vestment	EPHOD
Like Besant's insurgent monarch	REBEL
Lessing may make records	SINGLES
The blue version of Rebecca's father...	BETHUEL
Some non-coms with chevrons kidding around for Russian officer	VRONSKI
First of Donne's early sensual poems	ODES
Domestic novelist?	HOUSEHOLD
Poem errs horribly - suggesting whose new clothes?	EMPERORS
Couplet from parodist I chuckled at	DISTICH
A household name among thriller writers	GEOFFREY
'In ancienter days a few pages of good poetry - a whole ell of the finest Genoa' (W. S. Landor, Examination of William Shakespeare)	OUTVALUED
Well-trained children's writer	AWDRY
Mythical German earthly paradise badly bugs Verne	VENUSBERG
Part of kyrie timidly rendered for 'the Hebrew Dante'	RIETI
Appropriate piece for three trios?	NONET
Greek anatomist of wit	EUPHUES
John Selden said they govern the world	SYLLABLES
Customary American university a student joins	USUAL
County painter	SUTHERLAND
Buchi Emecheta's legend now revised	GWENDOLEN
Directions of Tom Brown's friend	EASTS