The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 06 08

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