The Times Specialist 2011 01 28 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
A destroyer launched by Bellow and Stevenson	WRECKER
Scene of summit meeting for influential Greeks	OLYMPUS
He offered his own Apologia, but Byron his lament	TASSO
Good times for Cleopatra	SALADDAYS
'What do you think I am, a -- --, first you pick me up and then you put me down . . .' (Alison Lurie, Love and Friendship)	TEDDYBEAR
Singer's drudge	SLAVE
Golden-haired child who adapted adeptly to adoption	EPPIECASS
'I remember Port Selda' (on the up-line)	ADLESTROP
Possibly decry play, as she refuses to sing for her husband	LADYPERCY
Those other aspects of moral significance	ETHOS
His final piece of luggage was the stuff of mystery	TRENT
Associated with poetry by Richards	SCIENCE
Real bad error by theologian	ABELARD
Belinda's guardian one was Ariel	SYLPH
His fiction is in the van	DOYLE
Part of Pete Dexter's Paris Trout does excel	OUTDO
Boating enthusiast in Edwardian novel sounds cross	RATTY
Hecht's leading messenger	FRONTPAGE
One of Swift's final demands	LASTORDER
Moab is Fry's	WASHPOT
He created a storm in Russian theatre	OSTROVSKY
Country spin by Oldham MP	RURALRIDE
'Like a patient -- upon a table' (T. S. Eliot)	ETHERISED
Unadorned characteristic of Phyllis Webb's verse	NAKEDNESS
Met on first looking into Chapman's Emperor of Germany (or was it Peele's?)	ALPHONSUS
Composer takes pause, ending on Monday	LULLY
Sweet, simple, and nurtured by Isabella	BASIL
How Catherine Ryan Hyde's Trevor would pay it	FORWARD
Capek's character is switched on, but incapable of original thought	ROBOT
Is manuscript on Southern church describing these breaches?	SCHISMS
Way Dr mishandled children's writer	AWDRY
Friend of Antonio seen in locations in Cheshire and Brasil	SALERIO

A destroyer launched by Bellow and Stevenson

Scene of summit meeting for influential Greeks

He offered his own Apologia, but Byron his lament