The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 05 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Friday writer HEINLEIN
Chap flowers in Simms book GUYRIVERS
& 4D Tragedy of one not taken on board – an amusing writer KING
(see 16Ac) LEAR
Mendicant from Cumberland CARMELITE
Venetian nobleman in substitute for ode rigorously revised RODERIGO
Previous English poet PRIOR
Shakespearian knight with connections to former heavyweight SIRPIERCE
He was in love in Amsterdam, his creator feeling right inside VANDERVALK
Innocent victims, exterminated in crusade ALBIGENSES
Poet showing the French caging a bird LAMARTINE
Spenserian chatelaine associated with mother in old school ALMA
Pile big boy upset reveals some fine bookbinding BIBLIOPEGY
'Oh damn their Celtic twilight,,' Peter thought. 'Thank God I'm —' (Eric Linklater, White Maa's Saga) NORSE
Joyce's youthful sitter ARTIST
Possibly visit clue for old law book LEVITICUS
American author seen in Germany, full of beer STEIN
You can get evens on a good man being a successful novelist STEVENSON
A bare bath might have been provided here BETHABARA
'It happens to country — like you, as soon as you dance with a fellow' (Edna O'Brien, The Lonely Girl) MOPES
Late support at church for Ambrose BIERCE
Asimov character seen to steal book ROBOT
Dramatist comes back during much-toasted opening night ODETS
Damaged, like Cotswolds manor house in quartet? BURNT
Play strongly in favour of low score? ALLFORLOVE
How Sheila Kaye-Smith would smooth things out, while having a fag? IRON
Ignited by Sillitoe ATREE
Fully supported situation of Brontëan painter TENANT
Moneylender's friend and murderer suggest early artificer TUBALCAIN
Maupassant hero in libel (amicably resolved) BELAMI
Long distance writer MORTIMER
Indiscriminately hawk lots of chat on this TALKSHOW