The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 03 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Esoteric third character in mixed 6 is quiet ORPHIC
Strange leper on island as humorist PERELMAN
Mark, perhaps, an unquestionable truth GOSPEL
Unexpectedly key rivals for minor goddesses VALKYRIES
Press, at the end of the day, produces sarcasm IRONY
Well known sign of Norwegian anguish SCREAM
Gains a lot of weight (one who forged in 1984) WINSTONSMITH
A month of birds for triumvir OCTAVIAN
So engaged by Simon Gray OTHERWISE
'That commonly called the plot, whether intricate or —' (Milton , Samson Agonistes) EXPLICIT
It meant mischief to Hamlet MALLECHO
Hurry back to witch in Bronze Age tower NURHAG
Lawrence's thankless work, owing nothing to Keats's beautiful woman SANSMERCI
Jan van der Post offering a place to drink, out of the sun ABAROFSHADOW
Ancient kingom inhabited by Byron, Huxley and Priestley? ALBANY
The fear of first tiny blooper by Machen TERROR
To preoccupy magnificently, as with Robert Merrick OBSESS
A thief of Corelli BARABBAS
Roy Campbell said that, like wives, they are seldom entirely faithful TRANSLATIONS
Redhead keeps artist for composer GRAINGER
Early Bloch-buster, not exactly meteoric SHOOTINGSTAR
One of those bare and ruined in sonnet CHOIR
He saw himself as king, with Miranda as his queen STEPHANO
Ordinary boy with good example of Gregorian chant PLAINSONG
Burns unit in short-term employment MOUSE
Enterprise for Heinlein's cavalrymen STARSHIP
Moderate tantrum from Opie TEMPER
Auden's date is not any Sunday NONES