The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 08 31

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