The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2008 12 26

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