The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 10 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Prepare old tutor for battle. The last one ARMAGEDDON
Standard opening of novel of Rose Macaulay NORM
Popular work not referring to Willy Loman BESTSELLER
Colourful outbuilding associated with slaughter BARN
Mrs Craik introduced her husband AGATHA
Thriller writer has nothing on Renaissance man LEONARDO
A key Slav bk. adapted for composer KABALEVSKY
Let in banal reconstruction from Scottish writer BALLANTINE
Trollope's girl gets boy, unknown, and with a very small amount of money LADYANNA
Eponymous heroine – later seen as a bloomer AMELIA
They symbolized love for Abercrombie EMBLEMS
"O wicked ––, through whom I see no bliss" (A Midsummer Night's Dream) WALL
Jolly type on stream in Wheatley series ROGERBROOK
A poet prepares a précis ABRIDGES
Steinbeck's account of trouble at t'packing works? CANNERYROW
Diseased elm accused, perhaps, by Peacock MELINCOURT
London setting, researched in a rush KLONDIKE
Town in Hardy's Wessex, eternally described as Exonbury EXETER
Lear dies, sadly, involving stars SIDEREAL
"With gazing looks, short sighs, unsettled feet / He stood, but turn'd, as ––, to sun" (Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia) GIRASOL
Superficial justice in Windsor SHALLOW
"Lo in the –– clouds your bleating hills / Rejoice with herbage" (John Dyer, The Fleece) SPRINKLING
Partial description of Miss Cooper's old provincial bank? NATIONAL
This business was over in Greeneland AFFAIR
Harm done by this author, who is not, however, ruthless RENDELL
Giant rat created by dramatist RATTIGAN
She was, quixotically, greatly admired, though failed to appear DULCINEA
Some writers took a year to complete a first chapter. So that's all right OKAY