The Times Specialist 2011 01 14 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Eighteenth-century papers partly paid Lermontov	IDLER
'I, that am a relict and executrix of known plentiful -- and parts, who understand myself and the law' (William Wycherley, The Plain Dealer)	ASSETS
Twentieth-century novelist called author of Ravenshoe	AMIS
'The -- horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes' (Henry V)	BASEST
Talk in Africa of terriers consuming large bird	TSWANA
Frolic by dramatist recorded by Huxley	ANTICHAY
The storyteller is relative	REMUS
Like the lost leader's foot	DACTYLIC
Thackeray's diplomat seems to echo Congreve's rake	MIRABEL
Some marine humbug from Renault?	BULL
Play with female officer	MAJORBARBARA
Brothers with nobody to write about	GROSSMITH
Fish for northern troglodytes	TROLL
Short drinks with plenty of ice for poet	GINSBERG
Essayist, with Russian agreement, composes letter in Greek	LAMBDA
Sheepish type doing Robin's work for Falstaff causes furious outbreak	RAMPAGING
Essentially tenor and vehicle, Ivor Richards suggested	METAPHOR
Ship Draco destroyed in exalted fashion	RHAPSODIC
Brigid Brophy wrote in it	TRANSIT
Thriller writer shows academic concealing crew	DEIGHTON
No threat, perhaps, to Californian writer	ATHERTON
They are known for captious reasoning, and somehow suggest nonsense among drunks	SOPHISTS
Harsh Roman sort of spear	ASPER
Atomist might give pupils cue	LEUCIPPUS
Lucifer with stick acquired for Lowry's man	MATCH
Be Waugh's bigamous crook - that makes it dirty	BEGRIMES
Display firearm, say, to Clavell's governor	SHOGUN
Shaw showed him up	POSNET
Badger by the French wood seen as Jane's tormentor	BROCKLEHURST
Writer who saw himself as a son and brother	JAMES

Eighteenth-century papers partly paid Lermontov

'I, that am a relict and executrix of known plentiful -- and parts, who understand myself and the law' (William Wycherley, The Plain Dealer)

ASSETS

Twentieth-century novelist called author of Ravenshoe

AMIS

'The -- horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes' (Henry V)

BASEST

Talk in Africa of terriers consuming large bird

TSWANA

Frolic by dramatist recorded by Huxley

ANTICHAY

The storyteller is relative