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