The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 07 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Unfortunate union in Shaw play MISALLIANCE
Skeleton in Maugham's cupboard provides some light refreshment CAKESANDALE
Statuary stone hewn from basalt era ALABASTER
Long periods of travel in the Indies – in a veritable Eden DECADES
Porter's kid CISCO
Surgeon's report of staff with Eric, the king, and haphazard following RODERICKRANDOM
Shylock more confident at University USURER
He's trying short work with hesitation ESSAYER
An experiment by David Foster EMPATHY
French dramatist rent Ibsen adaptation BERNSTEIN
Wells character goes nap, with afterthought KIPPS
Surely not more Spenser ... NATHEMO
"Oh what made fatuous –– toil / To break earth's sleep at all?" (Wilfred Owen, "Futility") SUNBEAMS
American don as novelist DELILLO
Some hope from Dennis Brutus STUBBORN
Attractive nymph SIREN
Much of it is by Shakespeare ADO
Show contempt for Pluto DIS
Readership, of what Hannibal is said to have consumed? LECTORATE
The old-fashioned stuff is ecofriendly in Williams work THECORNISGREEN
First class key to the French symbol CCLEF
A small quantity of what mother holds is like an elaborate lyric MODICUM
Drake's prize for a hothead CACAFUEGO
Hard French hospital room for destroyer of the Wild Boar of the Ardennes DURWARD
"The cold, unbelieving eye of Englishmen, expectant of –– in manners" (Hawthorne, Dr Grimshawe's Secret) SOLECISMS
Galahad's dangerous seat SIEGE
Language for a snark if a translation is needed AFRIKAANS
"Like ––, that proves bad or good / According as 'tis understood" (Butler, Hudibras) MUSICK
Poet gets directions correctly ENRIGHT
Superior guesswork may reveal keyboard instrument in Paris church ORGUE