The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 05 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Skirmish from John Pudney's adventure in the fiord AFFRAY
Minutes concerning player, say ACTA
Now it is a reworking of a 5 work APOCALYPSE
Religion for those besotted by Hollywood? ASTROLATRY
Terrible Eisenstein classic IVAN
He tells it like it is, and is alert anyway REALIST
Blissful state of vehicle in bad rain NIRVANA
He went to school at Linbury Court in 1950 JENNINGS
Beloved animator? a misprint, surely INAMORATA
Darling dog immortalized by Zola NANA
Bolt on knave of hearts in play? GENTLEJACK
Child's play for some Deighton characters ISPY
They associated with Crusoe and Flanders DOGS
Unusual, like Burns's guid UNCO
Sort of dacron yarn spinner CONRAD
Unconscious alternative supports a place to eat for a month in France MESSIDOR
Weapon from Rubaiyat a gangster favoured YATAGAN
Updike's eponymous character only half a man CENTAUR
In which Higgins supplies a place for admission CONFESSIONAL
Hopkins sprang it on an unsuspecting audience RHYTHM
High-flier in Ludlum's agenda ICARUS
Joke heard in a tale of adventure GEST
From whose casement Tennyson looked "on great Orion" LOCKSLEYHALL
Jamaican novelist, but French MAIS
It leaves a bitter taste in crime fiction STRYCHNINE
The bard took two such steps to entitle his work MEASURES
". . . ran, like little half-tame animals on the ––, through the alleys of the great market" (Penelope Fitzgerald) SCAVENGE
A self-confessed snapper-up of unconsidered trifles AUTOLYCUS
Rhodes and a new king of Assyria ESARHADDON
Roman poet is careful, is around university PRUDENTIUS