The Times Specialist 2009 11 27 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Browning's was due his 5	PIPER
"The child –– to be out of doors" (The Old Curiosity Shop)	YEARNED
Composer composes off a bench	OFFENBACH
She created a draught, opening Arthur's eyes	MORGANLEFAY
Reputed composer of overture to The Beggar's Opera shows vigour at American church	PEPUSCH
Progressing where Poirot solved murder	INTRAIN
Prince James placed in valuable vessel	AMERIGO
Poem starting off decently enough	ODE
Old academicians never die	IMMORTALS
"A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon ––" (Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test)	RENAISSANCE
Alcove in scenic Heart of Midlothian	NICHE
"The keen ––, fellest of the fell" (James Thomson, Summer)	HYENA
Heart of de Vries and Tynan's Quaker	HANDSOME
8 god in a changed Cyrenaican city	APOLLONIA
Such actors do them badly	METHOD
What the guests of Benson and Gissing do	PAY
Its founder spoke thus, Nietzsche thought	ZOROASTRIANISM
Hartleyan shrimp	EUSTACE
Such writers produced Mrs Leicester's School, while not preserving Silence of the Lambs	COAUTHORS
They have a treble chance of hitting the high spots	SOPRANI
Traces: those of love revealed by Shirley Ann Grau and Dan Jacobson	EVIDENCE
Watkins work of passing interest	DEATHBELL
Werther loved her, as did Goethe himself, Mann recalled	LOTTE
Evans, novelist to lie about	ELIOT
Chronicler of Pilgrims' Progress	CHAUCER
Distinctions for French writers	NUANCES
Friend of Dr Livesey, said to be one of Shelley	TRELAWNEY
Exceptionally 8 girl meets exceptionally 8 boy in Shakespearean tragedy	VENUSANDADONIS
Constructor (from Thrace) of Alexander's Bridge	CATHER
Short son of the Hammer	PEPIN

Browning's was due his 5

PIPER

"The child –– to be out of doors" (The Old Curiosity Shop)

YEARNED

Composer composes off a bench

OFFENBACH

She created a draught, opening Arthur's eyes

MORGANLEFAY

Reputed composer of overture to The Beggar's Opera shows vigour at American church

PEPUSCH

Progressing where Poirot solved murder

INTRAIN