The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 02 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Italian poet's count DANTES
Our Altaic version of the author AUCTORIAL
On account of preceding the dark hours in Ellroy's work BECAUSE
I led prom - unbelievable as it may be, earnestly requested IMPLORED
It offers the conclusion in which nothing is concluded RASSELAS
How Browning's silk worker goes by, singing as she goes PASSES
Huxley's Lawrence disguised in a bellflower RAMPION
Burney heiress CECILIA
Coalesce naturally, using section of opera SCENA
Conrad's centre of obscurity THEHEART
Some strong desires of Clark Blaise LUSTS
Verse form from palimpsest in Egyptian library SESTINE
Useful guides for Two on a Tower STARMAPS
Lord Clonbrony, for example ABSENTEE
Name of section, like Bede or Lear HALFTITLE
For him, tragically, love leads to hell inside OTHELLO
Greek hero protects university for self-styled emperor ACHILLEUS
Betrayed wife shows spirit in new edition of Sade DESDEMONA
Dramatist and pure dramatic character SIMON
Roman horse on stage EQUUS
She was 'able to do anything from a medley dance to Lady Macbeth' MISSSNEVELLICI
Real set surprisingly seen in Hamlet film LAERTES
'. . . certainly the most efficient –– - –– - –– fliers that ever appeared. They were the invention of a Japanese artist' (H. G. Wells, The War in the Air) HEAVIERTHANAIR
'A 500-pound incendiary something like the old Russian -- Breadbasket' (Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo) MOLOTOV
Bathsheba, always with strange need EVERDENE
Anthem composer suggests twisted yarn LISLE
Singer's favourite set in Warsaw SHOSHA
The 'honour of the house' was his weak point, and Stalky and Co. knew how to flick him on the raw PROUT
'The souls of many Kings are vulgar -- ' (Peter Pindar, Odes to Kien Long) ENTRIES
Such stress can be grave, or even acute ACCENT