The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 07 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Spoil start of really unusual, innovative novel RUIN
Badly harm optional poem before marriage PROTHALAMION
Fall of Golding FREE
Spotty character of Dodie Smith PERDITA
Du Maurier's warrior - out of this world THEMARTIAN
Waders delayed by Paton? PHALAROPES
Emperor of the moon THEOPHILUS
Composer stirs up hornets, not prepared at first RAWSTHORNE
Lee mixes with US spies in seaport of Antioch SELEUCIA
Regular publication where one may read of Levi's table? PERIODICAL
Some were petrified by her looks EURYALE
Italian 25 discovered during unexpected disc hiatus ISCHIA
Somehow not like fantasist TOLKIEN
Quiet boy the French make Syrian prince PERICLES
Possibly a cousin of Somerville and Ross IRISHMAN
Rum-ti-foo's was balmy ISLE
Some fruitful fields of Stephen Poliakoff STRAWBERRY
Injured in war, he finds peace with his loving nurse BOLKONSKI
Practices of University Wits? USAGES
'. . . rode at an impracticable fence, and got a -- for his pains.' (Surtees) CROPPER
First class writing material, indirectly from ta'i chi era HIERATICA
Screw up on this recording, and you'll get letters from Lewis TAPE
James portrayed that of the dead THEALTAR
Surely the epitome of prejudice and pride? LADYDEBOURGH
Graduate with church composer BACH
Capulet cat TYBALT
Fall of Keats AUTUMN
O'Neill character with plenty of pull YANK
'I went into other --s as fast as I could. I went into this -- with you, and a lot of good it has done me' (Kipling) SPOT
Old coin still carries weight in Greece OBOL