The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 10 16

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