The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 03 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Clergyman, supported by drinks, depicting rural life PASTORALES
Its rural parts our lost Elysium, thought Betjeman MIDDLESEX
Book in which to get one's bearings ARMORIAL
CIA topics codified in collage PASTICCIO
Style Anne adapted in melodramatic novel EASTLYNNE
Foundling in strange passé epic EPPIECASS
Instinctive knowledge from fashionable teaching INTUITION
Dramatist in the main gentle INGE
The point of Herbert's oeuvre SPEAR
Poet with features of clerical cut, not nice to meet ELIOT
Pompey supporter makes Cretan seem unreliable MENECRATES
Pope keeps a retro miscellany for musical historian PRAETORIUS
Sandy companion of Hannay ARBUTHNOT
Mark's wife not so young, they say ISOLDE
Prelude right in ode, perhaps PROEM
He paid dearly for his brother's soup ESAU
He was early preoccupied with a question of upbringing POWELL
Hellish flower, reportedly bonebreaker STYX
Abstract style originates only partly as realist tendency OPART
A stanza with connections to the crown? CHAUCERIAN
Ancient Shakespearean sidearm PISTOL
A mess in Ur? a real mess, for its inhabitants SUMERIANS
Alternatives include many middle earth ogres ORCS
An operatic Tom Jones not one of his better gambits PHILIDOR
"Restore, restore –– to life" (Pope) EURYDICE
Arab child perhaps as groom for Scott ARCHIBALD
Ardent youth has computer-type memory, ex officio ROMEO
A season of Strindberg EASTER
A squadron of ravens spoken of – not an unkindness? SABRE
Novelist from before Sterne FORESTER
Police capital described by Seán O'Faoláin? PURSE
"Whom, on the wharf of –– waiting, / Count you to find?" (Housman) LETHE