The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 05 15

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