The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 12 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Intended to provide me with sacred book MEANT
Nabokov issued one - to see a production of Murdoch's A Severed Head? INVITATION
Slimmer spa transformed for elderly spinster MISSMARPLE
Black Italian violinist NERO
Utilitarian, crooked, indifferent actor, puts on new tie BENTHAMITE
Banks' man MANCHESTER
Bates's high regard for daily chaos? LOVEFORLYDIA
Updike protagonist who returned BECH
Many a verse, both short and terse, may well be worse, without this curse MONORHYMES
Dramatist's islands in far Antarctic ARAN
Bentley said geography was about them MAPS
Tritten tracked her maturity HEIDI
Dr. rents big new construction for playwright STRINDBERG
'No less '--' necessary and right are the brutalities of men in brown shirts' (Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means) HISTORICALLY
The long, slow feet of M-M-Morse DISPONDEE
Musical alternative in loss Iago suffered OSSIA
Italian author was something of a volatile visionary LEVI
Imagist noting lad has changed ALDINGTON
Muir poem extended by Cary? THEHORSES
Let it remain in Durrell's tetralogy STET
Given self-regard, given name: given name, expressionist EGON
Singer revealed many in total here SCUM
They are apparently ruled out in Dick Francis' Odds Against EVENS
Peacock's hasty passage HEADLONGHALL
Plural gerundive putting matters to rights CORRIGENDA
Unexpectedly ablest rich girl portrayed by Coleridge CHRISTABEL
Firm defender of Solzhenitsyn suggests provost confused about love in rich surroundings ROSTROPOVICH
'My aunt and her paramour . . . such a pair of --, as I believe, all England could not parallel' (Smollett, Humphrey Clinker) ORIGINALS