The Times Specialist 2012 02 03 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Titanic survivors, but later mostly ruined	COLOSSAE
Arcadian city, for example, found in shrub	TEGEA
Persian queen in perilous times - there was constant danger	ESTHER
Poet a big hit in the States?	HOMER
Beginning of the end of parades of Fords	SOMEDONOT
Wilder film setting may seem flat	APARTMENT
Beadles About? Possibly offering this sort of pompous self-importance	BUMBLEDOM
Warlord and hostage-taker may be all in	NIALL
Novel by Einstein found in glassworks, we hear	ONTHEBEACH
Disallow 'winter' (dictionary definition), in part due to unseasonable warmth?	INTERDICT
Settle for a later adaptation of this Beaumont and Fletcher play?	PHILASTER
1 Ac. not prepared to give credit	UNBELIEVER
A stern doctor, we're told	SLOP
Possibly be rich icon as composer	BOCCHERINI
Organist-composer, could be, for French shepherd	FROBERGER
Creator of Paradise Lost (Italian version)	GUGLIELMI
Masque of firm amount returned	COMUS
Some model philosophers cover riddler's retreat	DELPHI
&21 Additional lesson may be derived from Patrick O'Brian book	DESOLATION
Sort of pert and waggish Italian poet	PETRARCH
(See 13)	ISLAND
Some exceptionally clever type loses head following chaps in Coriolanus	MENENIUS
World War bomber created Civil War record	MITCHELL
Rewrite a drama for the fleet	ARMADA
First man with new idea for means of communication	MEDIA
Mrs Bennet offered one, for a start	AXIOM
Milton's heathen	PANIM
Leonard was his friend	FREY
Test failed. But editor says let it stand	STET
Some litigants from the French theatre	PLAIDEURS
'Mr Arabin — himself in at St Ewolds' (Trollope)	READS
They arrived in haste for James Jones	SOME

Titanic survivors, but later mostly ruined

COLOSSAE

Arcadian city, for example, found in shrub

TEGEA

Persian queen in perilous times - there was constant danger

ESTHER

Poet a big hit in the States?

HOMER

Beginning of the end of parades of Fords

SOMEDONOT

Wilder film setting may seem flat

APARTMENT