The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 05 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Poet may come to such conclusions ENVOIS
European ruler managing with difficulty EKING
Inconsequential dialogue is part of French attitude CHAT
"Where can it be / This land of . . ?", asked Poe ELDORADO
Encountered religious education in poetic measure METRE
Courage of La Baronne Dudevant SAND
Old city in sad comeback for French writer DURAS
Bard of strategic services with Scottish name OSSIAN
Some fabulous swimmers NAIADS
Provenance of nineteenth-century nightingale SWEDEN
Brother artist ANGELICO
"There are no fields of –– on this side of the grave" (W. S. Landor, Imaginary Conversations) AMARANTH
19 with small town American poet SANDBURG
His Garden of Florence (perhaps exceptionally?) not a portrait REYNOLDS
Concerning journalist poet REED
Point in trick ballet RUSSE
Theroux offered it – some private knowledge of mine? The other fellow's Conservative MYSECRETHISTORY
Variety of pear favoured by Theophilus Grantly? THEWARDEN
The wild winds sung the dirge of this Scott creation ROSABELLE
There, mid revisions of Victorian poet MEREDITH
Wouk treatment of Greene theme lacking power? THEGLORY
Wounding fact revealed in The Kingfisher? HOMETRUTH
Strangely cool antics of heretic ICONOCLAST
I put back South American lingua franca TUPI
Posthumous marriage said to make difficulties for her IMOGEN
Italian prizefighter celebrated by Bird GLADIATOR
Russian player who scored several times for Diaghilev STRAVINSKY
Essayist belonging to a chaste electorate STEELE
Merry friend of Bilbo MERIADOC