The Times Specialist 2010 03 05 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Innocent as John Le Carré's lover	NAIVE
'That transatlantic dram which is poetically named an -- ' (Dickens, Our Mutual Friend)	EYEOPENER
'The -- is larger than a blackbird, and feeds on haws' (Gilbert White, Natural History of Selborne)	OUSEL
A colleague of John Grisham	PARTNER
American money I invested in Spanish wine for Duke of Vienna	VINCENTIO
Bell memorialized some of its eminences	YORKSHIRE
Buckler chronicled this rising of the young David	REBELLION
Favour for Canadian poet	SERVICE
Flute played at her nuptials	HIPPOLYTA
indicating two quartets?	OCTET
Musketeer in Macedonia	ATHOS
Tyre associated with this wasted capital	NINEVEH
Verse tool ingeniously used by president	ROOSEVELT
New staples for drawing	PASTELS
State of Eberhart's verse	MAINE
Some locking of horns recorded by Howell	DUELL
Serious German surrealist	ERNST
Rogue exposed by Walpole	HERRIES
Possibly parse musical notation . . .	PRESA
Possibly a rash friend of naval officer	SARAH
Pole where H. Allen Smith felt inferior	TOTEM
People like Kant and Berkeley who have notions about a leaning	IDEALISTS
One out of the middle of the bat for epic poet	HOMER
One of Ballantyne's trail-blazers, or one of Cooper's?	PIONEER
Old Man of the Scandinavian theatre	THEFATHER
Old king figures in my celeb characters	CYMBELINE
Picture of fliers from New Zealand. Frame provided	RAINBIRDS
Some inn could reveal crime writer	SIMENON
Offstage alarms are venomous, they say	TOCSINS
Extremes of energy retain record panegyric	ELOGY
Benchley's birdcatcher?	EARLYWORM
27 of history	HERODOTUS

Innocent as John Le Carré's lover

NAIVE

'That transatlantic dram which is poetically named an -- ' (Dickens, Our Mutual Friend)

EYEOPENER

'The -- is larger than a blackbird, and feeds on haws' (Gilbert White, Natural History of Selborne)

OUSEL

A colleague of John Grisham

PARTNER

American money I invested in Spanish wine for Duke of Vienna

VINCENTIO

Bell memorialized some of its eminences

YORKSHIRE