The Times Specialist 2011 02 18 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Busybody of eighteenth-century theatre liable to spoil the storyline?	MARPLOT
Brahms implied that Bacon lacked it	BED
'The tear of elegant -- permanently in his eye' (Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters)	SENTIMENT
Whitman's betrayer possibly fled rehab	HALFBREED
Measures taken by the Bard	IAMBI
First class hotel writer	HILTON
Butler did it - must be satire	EREWHON
Formally attired to make a comeback in first grade Borodin production	ROBED
Father of history giving point to us following courageous chap	HERODOTUS
Rumoured to be 22's bronze medal winner	THETHIRDMAN
Reformer heard to be in a scrap every seven days	WYCLIFITE
Period Keneally's Kelly pined	YEARNED
Play featuring president entrusted to his predecessor	ABRAHAMLINCOLN
Said to be sharp, but indelicate revelation	EXPOSURE
Living, he wrote nothing	GREEN
Like the variety of Nicholas Blake	SAD
East of Ellen Wood	LYNNE
I am taken in by British Library member, a fictive colonel	BLIMP
Home of Somerset's Liza	LAMBETH
It's Tudor, an unexpectedly circular construction	ROTUNDA
Obvious content of some Ring Cycle aria	CLEAR
Nothing in the vessel is of exuberant style	BAROQUE
Ousting an eccentric Macedonian general	ANTIGONUS
A new birth for cultivated individual	RENAISSANCE
Audible amazement for readers, by Muir	LABYRINTH
An outstanding work of art	RILIEVO
About ten quit musical group	QUINTET
Poet advising artist to go on the wagon?	JOHNDRINKWATER
'. . . a race of rakes, called the --s, that play the devil about this town . . .' (Swift, Journal to Stella)	MOHOCK
Ballad on Eastern port from ennobled poet	MACAULAY

Busybody of eighteenth-century theatre liable to spoil the storyline?

MARPLOT

Brahms implied that Bacon lacked it

BED

'The tear of elegant -- permanently in his eye' (Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters)

SENTIMENT

Whitman's betrayer possibly fled rehab

HALFBREED

Measures taken by the Bard

IAMBI

First class hotel writer

HILTON