The Times Specialist 2009 03 20 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Mistaken identity for two Syracusans, funnily enough	EPHESIANS
"On the fore-stage, an –– is addressing a tattered crowd" (T. S. Eliot, The Rock)	AGITATOR
"He still was strong and fresh, his brain was grey. / Such –– might our young ladies move" (William Cartwright)	AGEDNESS
His widow was not sorry	LEHAR
Some distance away, we hear, like Carton's better thing?	AFAR
Kipling established a company for him	STALKY
Favourite shrub of Apollo	DAPHNE
Composer uneasily nears Kentucky	ARENSKY
Rewrite a drama for the fleet	ARMADA
Power to be added for foreign policy analyst and Pulitzer prizewinner	SAMANTHA
Reported table of Hungarian composer	LISZT
Feline Capulet	TYBALT
Magistrates on mysterious path to humorous writer	BENCHLEY
Scott's early death	OLDMORTALITY
New England stopover by John Irving	HOTEL
Eliot's weird, secret oak in Somerset	EASTCOKER
Sussex town officer in Watsonian role	HASTINGS
Fa presto to embellish the Escorial	GIORDANO
Lawrence poem (part of the Great Hebridean cycle)	THEBRIDE
He found endangered species fearfully balanced	BLAKE
Where John Gilpin lost his wig	ROAD
Souvenir of Rome I'm rewriting	MEMOIR
Dickens's bush raptor as ill-fated gambler	MULBERRYHAWK
Opera composer must add new ending for a disciple of Schoenberg	WEBER
Put on finish with hesitation – seems there's more to come	ADDENDUM
Sadly no raga art available in cultural Spanish city	TARRAGONA
Orphan from The Idiot	HEIDI
Greek girls possibly named as bacchantes	MAENADS
Whence Dinesen wrote	AFRICA
Dancers spotted during the Lost Leader's wanderings	DAFFODILS

Mistaken identity for two Syracusans, funnily enough

EPHESIANS

"On the fore-stage, an –– is addressing a tattered crowd" (T. S. Eliot, The Rock)

AGITATOR

"He still was strong and fresh, his brain was grey. / Such –– might our young ladies move" (William Cartwright)

AGEDNESS

His widow was not sorry

LEHAR

Some distance away, we hear, like Carton's better thing?

AFAR

Kipling established a company for him

STALKY