The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 12 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Deity in new record melody NEPTUNE
Comfort offered it with the wedding. Possibly of the shotgun variety? HASTE
Peaks attained by Amy Fox HEIGHTS
Scary book as treatment for backache? SPINECHILLER
Ass Clio prepared for informal gatherings SOCIALS
"When I mount the –– chair / Wha will sit beside me there?" (Burns, The Rantin' Dog) CREEPIE
"The crooked –– - ––s / Grey with their fleecy moss and misseltoe" (Southey, Madoc) APPLETREE
It is sharp in one composer TARTINI
Herbert's saintly stalemate HOLYDEADLOCK
Hall Caine's city – 21, perhaps? ETERNAL
French life in credit instrument CLAVIER
Disadvantage of amusing song CATCH
Ferlinghetti's life ENDLESS
Mann produced man from here: an eminent Stewart LARAMIE
Second OT book in Greek island SAMOS
French novelist is bad actor in single combat DUHAMEL
Key characters in Lear, the Scottish play, and a Russian play THREESISTERS
Languages found in Joe Lampton guest book? TONGUES
Talent in O'Hara's set-piece stories ASSET
Spire dormer might be unclear LUCARNE
Underwater flower? (associated with crustacean) ANEMONE
Valentino, king of Ruritania, we hear RUDOLPH
Swordsman uses pointed weapon (silver, new article) DARTAGNAN
Retain the ambition in Bradford work HOLDTHEDREAM
Some comic rondos from Greek composition OMICRON
Son of king of of Scotland, and Albion, perhaps DONALBAIN
Thackeray character in two writers PENDENNIS
Scottish king becomes Hitler for Huddersfield MALCOLM