The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 06 05

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