The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 07 20

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