The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 07 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
His head of state was barely visible ANDERSEN
Additional charges for very minor characters EXTRAS
Seen in church, but said to be opposed to singing ANTECHOIR
Political economy is such a science, thought Carlyle DISMAL
Poor verse, or libretti for bad operettas, at the end of the day POETASTERY
The Raven, from Dickens GRIP
Orsino would have had it of music EXCESS
Strauss's old lecher said to be bovine OCHS
Some chablis, then chardonnay, for Dorset mayor HENCHARD
Paul Theroux saw more than fifty happy ones paddling the Pacific ISLES
Steward well-known by Edgar for what he was OSWALD
Sort of stuff offered by Hay and Wolfe RIGHT
Singers perceived – the scheme of this verse, is easy to see, and that may well be for better or worse ABBA
Poet misled Wilde, say DAYLEWIS
Her garden sounded relevant ELIZABETH
Hardy farmer James, always with strange need EVERDENE
Humour of Burton MELANCHOLY
Lean Trollopean chaplain SLOPE
Jean Plaidy's was victorious VICTORIA
'Politic, cautious, and meticulous; / Full of high —, but a bit obtuse.' (T. S. Eliot) SENTENCE
Itinerant preacher as murderee in Sandbourne ALECDURBERVILLE
Duke of Anjou to rule (that is, king) REIGNIER
African Queen achieved nothing DIDO
He got icon wrong in rationalist building style NEOGOTHIC
Freeman portrayed its highway HEART
'He . . . running into the house, exposed his back and — to the whole family' (Smollett, Humphrey Clinker) SCONCE
Boorish cavalry officer from Victorian fiction, said to be from Northern Ireland DERRIMAN
Blake's night flier INVISIBLE
Adams heroine gets these wrong, right afterwards ESTHER