The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2011 02 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Slander holiday of 1Ac MALIGNFIESTA
Anderson described the egg's TRIUMPH
Lovelorn, doggerel-writing poet of the French state DUMAINE
Levantine beheads Victorian novelist ISRAELI
American coin in French play - unlikely to come down tails EAGLE
The sharpest French accent? ACUTEST
Film of Norris's McTeague produced by good English director GREED
Expatiate on effect of Alice's cake ENLARGE
Why new, dismal version of avant-garde artist? WYNDHAMLEWIS
'. . . this comes of letting ye gang a- -- for a day . . .' Scott, Old Mortality SODGERING
Kay Boyle's day, preceding a glad one WEDDING
Possibly one true description of travel writer's situation ENROUTE
William Coyle wrote of its leader STAFF
New view of sheepdog at top of some critics' list of works by 1 Across THEAPESOFGOD
Mr Micawber regretted these extroverted second expenditures OUTGOINGS
Defoe had a short way with him DISSENTER
Theatre I leave to see musical based on Dickens work OLIVIER
Bellow summoned up this Lord of the Elements HENDERSON
Vanbrugh's original settler? PILGRIM
Characteristic of Le Carré's lover NAIVETE
Thorpe's awkward start to ode STROPHE
Thread of Harraden's mystery GUIDING
Early Italian drystone dyker in memoirs of Yourcenar HADRIAN
'I've got quite -- and dismal' (Mrs Gaskell, Wives and Daughters) MOPED
Scene of showdown for the Gun Shy ABILENE
Reflections on Vivaldi from 1Ac? THEREDPRIEST
You are said to lead right into the valley to find a creator of quartet DURRELL
Composer to reward favourite, say TIPPETT