The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 12 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Tool of Figaro's trade might have made Il Barbiere the first SOAPOPERA
Sad Masonic songs ELEGIES
Several feet for French person to contain wastage MOLOSSI
'. . . my words no fancy'd woes relate: / I speak from --, and the voice is Fate' (Pope, Odyssey) SCIENCE
An afternoon with William Boyd BLUE
'Few little ---- popping away with cameras' (John Osborne, West of Suez) NIPS
Church residence for goddess CERES
Cholmondeley's character in soup (car driven - horn out of order) RICHARDVERNON
Dickensian greengrocer who answered to the gentleman in black RICHARDUPWITCH
French philosopher acted by rote, in a way DIDEROT
Paper on Ammunition too stiff for writer? CARTRIDGE
Remarkable as Hamilton's providence SPECIAL
Precipitate idea of Maugham RAIN
Pet name for Lear FOSS
Reason for Boileau-Narcejac's detective being reluctant to reach the heights ACROPHOBIA
Runyon's city gambler DETROIT
Witchcraft starts off Banquo's exit (and haunting) OBEAH
Festival for old writers among grandpa's childhood memories PASCH
Lutheran principle may be seen as psi item PIETISM
It might make Nash beg for woman hit hard in room SHEBANG
Instrument of punishment, we hear, for its rebellious occupants CAINE
Indifferent part of Dreiser's desire STOIC
Greek satirist seen in a retreating attitude AESOP
He wrote more than one play that is inwardly no good INGE
Heresy derived from Greek sage? NESTORIAN
Home bird seen near the bank THEKINGFISHER
Lewis offers suitable seat for second-place runner? THESILVERCHAIR
Lee's mastermind with history (muse quite unusual) GENIUSLOCI
Melville skipper, ever unreliable VERE
Meredith's unduly subjective subject THEEGOIST