The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2008 12 26

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