The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 02 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sort of pert and waggish Italian poet PETRARCH
(See 13) ISLAND
Some exceptionally clever type loses head following chaps in Coriolanus MENENIUS
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
World War bomber created Civil War record MITCHELL
Arcadian city, for example, found in shrub TEGEA
Titanic survivors, but later mostly ruined COLOSSAE
Leonard was his friend FREY
Test failed. But editor says let it stand STET
'Mr Arabin — himself in at St Ewolds' (Trollope) READS
Some litigants from the French theatre PLAIDEURS
Milton's heathen PANIM
Masque of firm amount returned COMUS
&21 Additional lesson may be derived from Patrick O'Brian book DESOLATION
Some model philosophers cover riddler's retreat DELPHI
Creator of Paradise Lost (Italian version) GUGLIELMI
Organist-composer, could be, for French shepherd FROBERGER
Persian queen in perilous times - there was constant danger ESTHER
Poet a big hit in the States? HOMER
Wilder film setting may seem flat APARTMENT
Warlord and hostage-taker may be all in NIALL
Beadles About? Possibly offering this sort of pompous self-importance BUMBLEDOM
Beginning of the end of parades of Fords SOMEDONOT
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
Novel by Einstein found in glassworks, we hear ONTHEBEACH
They arrived in haste for James Jones SOME