The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 04 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Tall man's schooner HESPERUS
He was not depressed by a blue period PICASSO
Waggery of breadhead pursuing pence as humorous writer DROLLNESS
One of Updike's puzzles? PROBLEM
Elliott's fighting man takes money with hesitation SOLDIER
Relaxed with source of Johnson's essays? IDLED
For Bloom, such journeys were all Greek ODYSSEYS
Riches get suit back for Tennyson's eponymous poet LUCRETIUS
Ms Sontag not applicable as apocryphal wife SUSANNA
Ballantyne's pile of dead fish CORALISLAND
A wave of the arms UNDEE
Ground gained where Romans invested ordains change INROADS
"On these occasions he ceased to be a human –– whom an 'Oh Clarence!' could quell" (P. G. Wodehouse) DOORMAT
Concept anathema to Miss Keeldar's suitor LUDDISM
He domesticated sorex araneus PETRUCHIO
Soames as owner AMANOFPROPERTY
Short form suits poetry to a "t" VERSET
Seat of poetry and music in university plays PARNASSUS
Novelist capable of giving one a lift CRANE
Burns out of kilter AGLEY
Flower girl unrelated to homophonic polyglot vet ELIZADOOLITTLE
Aida clone unexpectedly produced by Defoe CALEDONIA
"Il n'y a que le premier –– qui coute" (Mme du Deffand) PAS
Twice a prizewinner for Iris Murdoch SEA
Larkin's seniors, seemingly deluded, and not as diabolical as those of friend Amis THEOLDFOOLS
Dramatic successes, possibly taken to court SMASHHITS
"–– - –– keeps Teacher well in sight" (Walter de la Mare) COPYCAT
Some bold-faced Richard Lionheart type from Scott CEDRIC
He married Miss Lee in fear – denial possibly ARDEN
Writer's given name misled a lord ROALD