The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 06 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Italian stories of the French clan DECAMERON
Letters he wrote were fictional BARTH
London's club area not the sweet spot THEIRONHEEL
Kenneth Grahame stories discovered in untidy dame's yard DREAMDAYS
'All's —, dark and deadly' gloomy observation from Kent CHEERLESS
A place for Sir Thomas Browne's subterranean artefacts LOCULUS
'She sits all night at cards, and ogles at —' (Goldsmith) SPADILLE
Bric-à-brac at the Illyrian court CURIO
and he follows Lavengro ROMANYRYE
He is in nearly all his own books LYALL
He killed his father's killer, and his father's killer killed his father's killer LAERTES
Mrs Badger's second choice was a don leading a sort of dog PROFESSORDINGO
Heraldic flower starts literary interest somehow LIS
Victor of Gothic fiction DRFRANKENSTEIN
Good innkeepers from Ibsen GHOSTS
Elusive royal minister, followed by John (John Buchan) . . . PRESTER
Garrick often spoke on it CUE
Typeface for early edition of paper PAPYRUS
Soprano's dessert MELBA
Burns' wine no good for Romantic poet SWINBURNE
Oddly diluted saboteur encountered by Shirley LUDDITE
Wayward marshal seen incessantly taking Assyria to war SHALMANESER
Graves essayist as NCO? SERGEANT
He was led astray in average Wordsworth work PEDLAR
Waugh horseman, say, once again a visitor – RYDER
Critical part of chess game in Irish play ENDGAME
Source of cider associated with source of wine by Vita ORCHARD
Creator of an English Götterdämmerung sounds like a gem GARNETT
– not as different Pinter protagonist ASTON
Extraterrestrial identified and photographed! METEORITE