The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 09 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sort of loon serving Macbeth CREAMFACED
Handy handbooks, certainly portable VADEMECUMS
She disparaged 'the Brodie set' HEADMISTRESS
Shavian prodigy who preferred solitary contemplation of mathematics CHLOE
Haiku poet from Paris, Saint Cloud ISSA
Power of Hardy is lukewarm LAODICEAN
Book said to be commonplace, though could be one of 1 ADVERSARIA
Bondsman's brother said to be safe with Belgian PETERFLEMING
Old historian - I deduct his odd spelling in modern texts, prefer Nicholls's 1550 version THUCIDIDES
Peake character in terminal state TITUSALONE
Smiles performed it DUTY
'What may be called 'the board' of some of these ' -- ' is numbered to thirty-two' (Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor) ROULETTES
Priest's ale spilt, rite lapses disastrously in ruins of sterile spa as reptiles seen wandering toward stringed instruments PSALTERIES
Robert Owen wrote of inmates' changed characters MANIFESTO
Eponymous girl in verse from tall chap, and from curtailed poet EVANGELINE
Corneille protagonist likely to give wrong impression LIAR
One seeking seaside scraps offered -- of Thistles DIET
Moon opposite to Borges LUNA
transmitted to veiled set, perhaps TELEVISED
It's easily located in fifteenth-century literature ETHE
Arriviste Dickens wife putting a good face on things MRSVENEERING
Short calls, such as that of Hitler related by 12 FLYINGVISITS
Bore introduces dull reading in Latin literature DRILL
Fratricidal crime writer? CAIN
Life of model for Orlando VITA
Experimental writer sees first koala in maple ACKER
George Moore's greeting may be soothing SALVE
Moment for a dramatic flop from Ben Travers? . . . TURKEYTIME