The Times Specialist 2010 10 08 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
First-class backing for depth in Scoop setting	ABYSSINIA
First fairly apt current figure of speech in transmitted copy	FACSIMILE
Plainer Tale from (Kipling's) Hills has sluggish content	INERT
A journey for Agate?	EGOTRIP
Sign for printer to turn up lip and brag	PILCROW
A man of letters	EPISTOLER
Havana visa badly needed for Hindu sectarian	VAISHNAVA
Stargazer may come to doting end	EDDINGTON
Elegiac sound from distinguished portraitist?	KNELL
Winged creature from Lewis	PEGASUS
Nina Bawden's lived back at the seaside	DEVIL
Dry run satirizing Dryden	REHEARSAL
Novelist graduate manages to contain impulses	BURGESS
Beauty found in the length and breadth of Greece	HELEN
Walter the poet's Paris porte	CHATILLON
Get newssheet returning to provide pocket-size reading	PAPERBACK
''Englishwomen should never -- ', he told her' (Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide-and-Seek)	RUMBA
Some serpentine verse of Lawrence	SNAKE
Said to be principal children's writer	MAYNE
Foreseeable career path for little women	GOODWIVES
Funnily enough there's some Irish in the boy at Cockpen	LAIRD
One of life's tenser moments concealing some Shakespearian light relief	FESTE
Trollope's country seat	ORLEY
'Though this catering -- - -- be bold to call it wicked' (Milton, Colasterion)	LAWMONGER
Actress in process of describing screenwriter	SCENARIST
Bandit badly barding	BRIGAND
Writer to stay temporarily in box	LODGE
Writers offering attempts first hidden	ESSAYISTS
Payback time for Chatterton	REVENGE
New lingo we expect from poet and novelist	INGELOW
Tennyson's rough sailor's lad in the forest	ARDEN
Larcenous as Golding's bird	PINCHER

First-class backing for depth in Scoop setting

ABYSSINIA

First fairly apt current figure of speech in transmitted copy

FACSIMILE

Plainer Tale from (Kipling's) Hills has sluggish content

INERT

A journey for Agate?

EGOTRIP

Sign for printer to turn up lip and brag

PILCROW

A man of letters

EPISTOLER