The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 06 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Lightweight cat, like civet requested by Lear? OUNCE
Collector's item for the duke of Illyria CURIO
Slang explored by this rice pudding game ERICPARTRIDGE
West's representative AMBASSADOR
Most highly valued as Boyd's idol DEAREST
Unlikely-sounding Shakespearean heroine HERO
Note manoeuvre with king from Peacock CROTCHETCASTLE
French novel at day's end, with whisky, for gypsy gentleman ROMANYRYE
French composer has honour, though in the cart CAMBERT
Messenger's inclination, recorded by Philip MacDonald LIST
Pen exited surprisingly, being appropriate EXPEDIENT
Superior weight of James FINER
Nymph in fine choir ECHO
Get rain with Spain / A dull refrain / Some poets obtain / That's here made plain MONORHYME
Declare a poet and critic called Herbert AREAD
Composer from Düsseldorf finally vindicated ORFF
Ibsen staged the people's ENEMY
Rossini's was di Seta, and possibly seen here SCALA
Kilo lost by Norse god LOKI
"The very personation of kindness and humanity" SAMUELPICKWICK
Props for My Beautiful Laundrette supplied by Tom Stoppard? DIRTYLINEN
Quarry of Jean Auel's hunters MAMMOTH
Gay verse: pleasant subject WINE
One of Mickey Spillane's profounder works THEDEEP
I rule up new design for usual haunt PURLIEU
". . . another –– Dame of Quality" (Colley Cibber, The Provok'd Husband) RANTIPOLE
Playwright portrays doomed daughter on the water in France FEYDEAU
"Uninvited, unexpected ––s-in lured off the high road" (Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts) DROPPER
It included officers and gentlemen SWORDOFHONOUR
Beasts of burden supported by bad actor in finding Kingsley's adventurer OXENHAM