The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 10 16

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