The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 03 27

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