The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 07 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Pre-publication printing of Maugham story remains pretty dry RAINPROOF
Rent is modified in late addition INSERT
Some of his impressions of Rome are evergreen RESPIGHI
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
Marxist kind of mimosa MAOISM
Well-balanced aria in service? EVENSONG
West's counselled the wrong side ADVOCATE
Sort of property shared by Fenton and Mantel VACANT
Like Malouf's life IMAGINARY
Jilly Cooper's short month on a Roman road OCTAVIA
Dramatist who distinguished himself at Blenheim VANBRUGH
Warner's caper ESCAPADE
McMurtry's solitary symbol of peace LONESOME
Tribute paid by Auden to amuse, it's rumoured HOMAGE
Cross reporter of summitry? BRAINE
Averse, say, to Bentley CLERIHEW
Guides for editorials LEADERS
'I shall – these doings before long. I've stood enough of 'em' (George Eliot, Adam Bede) OVERRUN
Roberts' hunter at the Borders ORION
Distant, like 17 who attacked Chesterton REMOTE
Miss Brontë's protagonist declares his belief PROFESSOR
'I took them for –s, and violators of the bounds of Modesty' (Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy) AMOROSA
See trainspotter's victim in Aden, perhaps DIANNE
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
Pinter character from Birmingham university ASTON