The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 08 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Thousands hold a fairy – really big game! MAMMOTH
Shortening, as in pastry, etc. ABBREVIATION
Bill known to be associated with Galatea ACIS
A well-known London suicide MARTINEDEN
A lot of bloomers in Lakeland HOST
Astringent Ulster graduates ALUMNI
Caravaggiesque brute? (Nose out of joint) TENEBROUS
Benighted in Tennessee IGUANA
A chapel for Scrooge? EBENEZER
Latin dramatist possibly from north-east Crete TERENCE
Like a 25 making upward progress GLOSSARIAL
Jerome protagonists talked it over in this TRIALOGUE
Hurtful as one of Gordon's evil-doers MALEFICENT
King with adulterous wife and revolting nephew ARTHUR
From whose 17 Tennyson looked 'on great Orion' LOCKSLEYHALL
'For Cynthia doth in sciences abound, /And gives to their professors —s large' (Spenser, Colin Clout's Come Home Againe STIPEND
Cymbeline sequel appreciated by Claudius CARACTACUS
Computerwise scribbler? HACK
Confucius he claim Chinese one PENTATEUCH
Fielding brilliant here during its third century ETON
Prize required for astrophysics TROPHY
Recommended for elevating reading AMBO
Partridge's start ORIGINS
Objectives initiating early Norse dramatic sagas ENDS
'Notice the — suppressions of his face' (H. G. Wells) SMUG
Noxious growth in Java, up a street in Bandung? UPASTREE
One of an oracular pair in second book URIM
Frame traitor CASEMENT
Fatal tipple for the 'false, fleeting and perjur'd' MALVASIA
Mere pub, but highly prized in 1984 HOTELDULAC