The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 07 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Ancestral Christmas tree, a present from Norway YGGDRASIL
4 thought the English belonged to the most exclusive one CLUB
Arts backing American composer STRAUS
Cadfael's was Benedictine, not ... MONASTERY
Colette book has a very short time to describe cathedral DUOMO
Conventional interior of casino Mickey Spillane depicted NOMIC
Freewheeling poet of the New Yorker NASH
Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way PHONICALLY
"Cinzano, Bonomelli, –– – illustrious names" (A. Huxley, Antic Hay) CAMPARI
Journalistic leader, perhaps EDITORIAL
Topic from The Lives of the Medicis THEME
Emperor, say, of seat of the Sanhedrin TIBERIAS
Conviction of Janeites PERSUASION
"To be driven round in these new horseless machines was –– –– of which we never tired" (Roy Campbell, Light on a Dark Horse) ATHRILL
Poor caviare exhibited by Molière protagonist AVARICE
Flanders rose of Meredith? RHODA
Not in fact biography of a biographer by Stanley Elkin BOSWELL
New intro in a very early form of shorthand TIRONIAN
Measure novelist as biographer ELLMANN
Manacle unfastened by thriller writer MACLEAN
Friends of Italian astronomer and natural philosopher AMICI
Like public transport with Morgan CELESTIAL
Fête with new saint for Pauline addressees GALATIANS
"I will talk of things moral, or things ––al" (Bunyan) EVANGELIC
Spanish nobleman's sustained speech is subdued, this Nobel prizewinner implies SHOLOKHOV
The real centre of the household, said GBS STABLE
The Sword in the Stone? EXCALIBUR
Lamb the Second? (His anger was kindled against David) ELIAB
Like the temptations of Mary Hewitt SEVEN
Some, or nearly all, of light novelist LYALL
Quasi archangel with warning for whalers GABRIEL
O'Flaherty's sort of retaliation PEDLARS