The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 11 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Self-defining production scripted by Beckett FILM
Resentment of Mrs Ellis PIQUE
Philosopher from Communist bloc (Cambridge graduate) OCCAM
Composer gives refreshment to Swiss poet MEYERBEER
Bulldog Drummond's engineer SAPPER
Past holds deceptively simple example of something overwritten PALIMPSEST
Measure play part for decree ENACT
Old tragedian confuses chess with polo SOPHOCLES
Milligan recorded his part in his downfall ADOLF
One of Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills as feature of church CLEARSTORY
Stay like Maxwell's rocks REMAIN
Joyce's penman, related to The Post SHEM
Humorist suggests many gypped in shopping precinct MACDONELL
His love was lost in The Winter's Tale FLORIZEL
Even his opponents applauded his swimming HORATIUS
I suggest an element of sycophantic biography (well I'm boss anyhow) BOSWELLISM
V. S. Naipaul's Ralph, whose Isabella was independent SINGH
"From forth day's path and ––'s fiery wheels" (Romeo and Juliet) TITAN
Am I top, perhaps (vide 14), with the best possible results? OPTIMA
Working girl to lose a quid, perhaps ODALISQUE
An unsettled spring month and a late winter one for Beth and Jo's sister AMYMARCH
Sign language? SYMBOLISM
Slang young ladies fit for novelist GALSWORTHY
They shaded O'Neill's longing ELMS
Transformed nymph, namely a climbing partner SCYLLA
Transport mentioned for mystery writer CARR
Friend of Finn from St Petersburg TOMSAWYER
Formerly Tolkien demon, first a cleansing priest in fiction EXORCIST
Former tree dweller see in bain-marie, lightly simmering ARIEL
Direct artist STEER
Excellent as Jepson's Child of the World ADMIRABLE
He knows his rites LITURGIST