The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 05 29

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