The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 03 27

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