The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2013 01 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The one in the pinafore was once a sweeper RULER
Rewrite and sort characters for dramatist ( 7) ROSTAND
Laws in France for month expected to be windy? VENTOSE
Track of Walpole's master, say TRAIL
A student tops poor Marie with a large port for the Moor ALMERIA
Jobs of which Cowper offered a unique example TASKS
Short woodwind piece heard from creative Swede SACHS
Downfall of existentialist LACHUTE
Fleming's Wiltshireman MOONRAKER
Socrates identified them as 'venerable goddesses' in Aristophanes' play THECLOUDS
The bongleweed came from this salad vegetable source CRESSWELL
Stage direction from The Green Terror ENTER
He mixes work and play DRAMATIST
Some slob only coming back for ferryman's tips OBOLS
Unreasonable request from Newby ALOTTOASK
Drunken stupor recommended by James Purdy? SLEEP
Ben Okri's occurred at a hallowed place INCIDENTS
Kitchen sink in Italian opera? VERISMO
Extremes dismissed for Shakespearian actor SNOUT
One who did for Sherlock Holmes MRSHUDSON
School of Updike MUSIC
Greek fabulist initiates all 12's satires or parodies AESOP
See where Dr Proudie held sway DIOCESE
Prizewinning tragedian confuses chess with polo SOPHOCLES
Cabbage a high point for poet COLERIDGE
A case for starting a new chapter UPPER
Drayton's blackbird in grouse location OUSEL
Propose me, perhaps, for rumoured professional's verse PROSEPOEM
Priedieus specially set out for playwright EURIPIDES
Novelist Powell with medium finds opposite meaning ANTONYM
English poet said to be associated with Marx SPENSER
'The person whose instructress and — she was' (Ouida, The Massarenes) TORMENTOR