The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 02 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Betsy Trotwood would have preferred David to be a great one NIECE
Moore heroine associated with Bath healer ESTHER
One of R. D. Laing's sandpipers? KNOT
Burden shouldered by Aeneas ANCHISES
Odd as Garfield's affair of Adelaide 8 STRANGE
American writer posted publicity MAILER
His wife refused to turn over a page OBERON
Boy proceeding by degrees with a shrub ERICA
Muir's landed property of verse ESTATE
University Wit who spared a groat's worth ROBERTGREENE
Playwright made the arrows, perhaps, but not the slings FLETCHER
Infantile poet with cavalier attitude? SUCKLING
'In her the -- of all heavenly grace / In chiefe degree are heaped up on hye' (Spenser, The Faerie Queene) RICHESSE
Unfinished shroud from 28 PENELOPESWEB
How to soothe a dog sent to Coventry? PATMORE
'This time he would not bid me enter/ The exhausted air-bell of -- --' (Browning, Christmas-Eve) THECRITIC
Poet given to concealing love TASSO
One happening to be associated with wisdoms by Donald Davie EVENT
' --, ' said Pnin, lifting two fingers, 'has expressed everything about mermaids in only two poems' (Vladimir Nabokov) LERMONTOV
His legs dramatically revealed in 1736 MARIVAUX
It was on the cards for Dennis IDENTITY
Apt to be sighted, say, like a loud dust jacket? QUOTABLE
Island folklorist HARRIS
Some persistent urge, never quite followed, to be a novelist TURGENEV
Rare poet identified with every man BENJONSON
Level bet on directions taken by First Lady EVENS
Herbert found it insufficient PITY
Architect sells heath? HAWKSMOOR
Proprietors of Churchill play OWNERS
Some unusual clothes seen on German poet HESSE