The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 07 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Like Malouf's life IMAGINARY
West's counselled the wrong side ADVOCATE
Sort of property shared by Fenton and Mantel VACANT
Dramatist who distinguished himself at Blenheim VANBRUGH
Well-balanced aria in service? EVENSONG
Jilly Cooper's short month on a Roman road OCTAVIA
Marxist kind of mimosa MAOISM
Tribute paid by Auden to amuse, it's rumoured HOMAGE
McMurtry's solitary symbol of peace LONESOME
Warner's caper ESCAPADE
Cross reporter of summitry? BRAINE
Pre-publication printing of Maugham story remains pretty dry RAINPROOF
Miss Brodie pupil who may also have had a cultivating influence, we hear GARDINER
Concerning Hardy's Melancholy Hussar (in everybody's eye) RETINA
Mount mount AMPERSAND
'I shall – these doings before long. I've stood enough of 'em' (George Eliot, Adam Bede) OVERRUN
Guides for editorials LEADERS
Roberts' hunter at the Borders ORION
Averse, say, to Bentley CLERIHEW
Rent is modified in late addition INSERT
Some of his impressions of Rome are evergreen RESPIGHI
Historian recalling Voss's mystic companion TREVELYAN
His play showed affection for no score WILLIAMCONGREVE
He spent a good deal of time in reflection NARCISSUS
See trainspotter's victim in Aden, perhaps DIANNE
Miss Brontë's protagonist declares his belief PROFESSOR
Pinter character from Birmingham university ASTON
'I took them for –s, and violators of the bounds of Modesty' (Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy) AMOROSA
Distant, like 17 who attacked Chesterton REMOTE