The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2011 09 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
There's worse poetry in short promotion, right? ADVERSER
Like Achaean youth, he gets to start of battle in Iliad, say EPHEBIC
A Mozart hero is a devotee of Venus ADONIS
"The sixth-form boy ... has spread his force ... behind the —" (Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays) GOALPOSTS
Like a bad apple, or Coe's clubmen? ROTTENTOTHECORE
I'd not so much of Edmund's initial dolce far niente IDLESSE
The Spanish going to and fro about Gibraltar after independence is on the cards ELIGIBLE
One like Praxiteles in part is temperamental ARTIST
Fates about to be involved in dastardly rape PARCAE
Priam's lost last bit of kingdom in conflict – because of him? PARIS
Bantu to run out second after he has heartless race HEREROS
Rulers of 6Ac, possibly, including part of Rhion and outskirts of Corinth ETHNARCHS
Public music company returning extra pay OVERTIME
Any ruler can get confused about one period described by Meton LUNARYEAR
Fish without a vessel in Rhys's sea SARGASSO
Material for Praxiteles – chap working in silvery-white metal symbolically MARBLE
Unfinished scroll put on carelessly by Praxiteles, say ... SCULPTOR
One like Flashman, impetuous, grabbed by the head of Rugby THRASHER
O'Casey's cup, from which one sates drunkenly? TASSIE
Where to find Milton's Zophiel, last of cherubim I defy, we hear MIDAIR
Desperately resist Dreiser's Carrie SISTER
Deaths coming about as curses start to eventuate SURCEASES
Work of Praxiteles, badly atrophied APHRODITE
Take in misfit, like Praxiteles GREEK
Michael Hofmann's makes one cry and moan miserably ACRIMONY
Bit of corpse to notice – Agatha's denouement's extremely detailed CADAVER
During Floréal I stick to what's achievable REALISTIC
In red novel includes revolutionary that's decorated ENRICHED
... and there initially he got directions! ATHENS