The Times Specialist 2011 12 02 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Nothing to pay for one of his novels	EVANS
Chatterton recorded his song	MINSTREL
A drawback, though perhaps not for a struggling writer	AWARD
"Stephen . . . is only recognizable at all by being made inseparable from his ———" (Stephen Spender, The Destructible Element)	ASHPLANT
Go to Mull on the way back, to find Tolkien character	GOLLUM
Phoebe Ann Masson's chivalrous knight recalls old Scottish saint	NINIAN
Slug expected to speed up printing?	LINOTYPE
Dogberry advised that all such men should be comprehended	VAGROM
A leaf from Debrett?	TITLEPAGE
Join to terminal hesitation as publisher's afterthought	ADDENDUM
Adopted personality for Hannay	TURNBULL
Wooed by Apollo, her choice was only mortal, Stephen Phillips explained	MARPESSA
Jane Austen's Bertram, who secured a good price, we hear	EDMUND
Willa Cather booked his house	PROFESSOR
A north-eastern sea, very stormy, for Trojan prince	AENEAS
Cleopatra made him lay his sword to bed	CAESAR
Such a mention, if quiet, will be better liked	REFERENCE
It must have been Providence that she decided to write	BROOKNER
Keillor's affair only medium	RADIO
Bennett's girl of the Roman road	TERESA
Night on which corn rigs are bonnie, thought Burns	LAMMAS
Calamitous reason for Caldwell book	TRAGICGROUND
NCO gets blow in Collins work	SERGEANTCUFF
American Cubists thought it real, and clearly exact	PRECISIONISM
Party going? Not Henry Green —— more Alan Ayckbourn	MAKINGTRACKS
Possibly scare her with use of 15 books	RESEARCH
Entrance for novelist and critic	AGATE
"A virtue which ———s and exalts / Objects through widest intercourse of sense" (Wordsworth, Prelude)	IRRADIATE

Nothing to pay for one of his novels