The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 02 19

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