The Times Specialist 2010 04 09 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Melville narrator, and what his name was	ISHMAEL
She took a realistic view of a girl's attachment	LOOS
French standards had their points	ORIFLAMMES
Academician in mark of respect to Lawrence work	RAINBOW
Henry's treasonable Henry	LORDSCROOP
Sonnet subsiding a quatrain short?	DECASTICH
Floated by Heyerdahl to prove a point	RAFT
English rhyming scheme for Swedish singers	ABBA
Army officer, like 10's major	SALVATIONIST
Bellow recorded his month	DEAN
Barrier in Edith Wharton's work	REEF
Roman general, and what his name was	CAIUSMARCIUS
Light cavalry from Kitzbühl? (answer in History of Napoleonic Wars)	UHLANS
An immortal creation of Swift	STRULDBRUG
She understood Swann's Way	ODETTE
'Fruits, / Which in wintertide shall star / The black earth with -- rare' (Tennyson)	BRILLIANCE
Dramatist and aircraftsman	SHAW
Like clerical headgear from Mrs Riddell's court	MITRAL
West writer gets mixed drink near Runyon's Detroit	NATHANAEL
A supporter of book reading	LECTERN
He wrote nowhere in a way	BUTLER
Composer seen as mug after air attack	BLITZSTEIN
Cressida's lover finds setter among semiconductors	DIOMEDES
'This tale might have made the fortune of a -- ' (Scott, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft)	ROMANCER
The bailiff's daughter of Islington had a weary one	LIMB
Historian encountered around devastated Chile	MICHELET
Hang around in the second character part in The Little Minister	THWAITES
The -- (Nabokov's minutes of a board meeting)	DEFENCE
Isolated cheese fancier predating Wallace	GUNN
Cutting response to bad language	BOWDLERISM

Melville narrator, and what his name was

ISHMAEL

She took a realistic view of a girl's attachment

LOOS

French standards had their points

ORIFLAMMES

Academician in mark of respect to Lawrence work

RAINBOW

Henry's treasonable Henry

LORDSCROOP

Sonnet subsiding a quatrain short?

DECASTICH