The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 07 24

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