The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 10 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
'Racine's character murdered in a bath' A lie? Not wholly ATHALIE
Father of Aestheticism PATER
Former characteristic of a piece from French literature EXTRAIT
A history, we're told, occurring at nightfall ACRONYCHAL
A pound for anyone understanding Lingua Franca in India POONA
Opera with jester revealing rascal SCALA
White tale might simply be relative by Sunday AUNTS
French dramatist takes encore ill, highly suspicious CORNEILLE
Like Sir Peter's autobiograpical persona? EXPENSIVE
Not quite true surveys for old Italians ETRUSCANS
'. . . — s and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies' (Jane Austen, Persuasion) TRESSEL
Autumn came jovial on for him THOMSON
Pie cooked in seat of kings for fallen Roman traitor Tarpeia
Large Welsh girl as Scottish poet OSSIAN
Gaboriau's brief DOSSIER
First illuminated in old book INITIAL
'Dames' an unreliable translation for bacchantes MAENADS
Opera repeatedly fashionable, coming back twice for maestro TOSCANINI
She gave us the flower of criminologists ALLINGHAM
Anger not applicable in Spenserian symbol of hope for peace IRENA
Fractured a peasant's feet ANAPAESTS
Mime comes back to portray giant of Moab EMIM
'She urged what she could to — me to it' (John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress) DISHEARTEN
Call up first dealer reducing Aesop's fabulous tome DRAFT
Where Macaulay found pleasure remains RUINS
I am in former Soviet republic, identifying Shakespearian kidnapper BELARIUS
Activity of Maugham's eponymous MacKenzie EXPLORING
His novel ideas published as stop press? INNES
Two notes to any I suggested for composer DOHNANYI
And concerning second – first name of renowned instrumentalist ANDRES
Panacea offered by Nahum at gallery TATE
Premier student of Homer GLADSTONE