The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2013 03 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Play showing strength in backward lad THEWINSLOWBOY
Orate ramblingly to amuse, say ERATO
A history exam in symphony APASTORAL
Motorway to covered shopping area reveals Shakespearian messenger MARCADE
Gamekeeper turned poacher, so to speak OLIVERMELLORS
Unusual actors' deal concerning priesthood SACERDOTAL
A deceiver of biblical proportions ANANIAS
He created a storm in Russian theatre OSTROVSKY
Falstaff went away as if he were such a child, Pistol's wife reported CHRISOM
A total, it would seem, of all, suggested by Olivia Manning ASUM
Opposite directions round America not applicable for apocryphal wife SUSANNA
Shape Changer, his mistress a large woman, her children monsters LOKI
Games venue for Countess of Holland OLYMPIA
Quintilian's 'most learned of Romans', perhaps from the Var (Roman descent) VARRO
Mature Capek protagonist? IMAGO
Gait of little women MARCH
Oddly cool antics of heretic ICONOCLAST
Win back sort of miracle. (In Glasgow slum? Bliss!) RECLAIM
First Broadway offering might bring a great deal of money BOMB
Novelist in razed Italian town HERCULANO
New master halts odd Dickensian schoolboy THOMASTRADDLES
Farrar's work discerned in fine Richard II analysis ERIC
'The horse-like bark of the — . . . puzzled him very much' (Samuel Smiles, Life of a Scotch Naturalist) ROEDEER
Commonsense shown by The Merchant's Gratiano, usually -although 'too wild, too rude and bold of voice' NOUS
A small part actor is worth one more run EXTRA
Miller's Tale of Capricorn, etc, heavily revised TROPICOFCANCER
'Stooping her fair pinnacles of hair, stooping, her tortoise —comb showed' (Joyce, Ulysses) NAPE
Scene of Holtby riding incidents YORKSHIRE
Her brother was urged to be true to himself OPHELIA
Benson's king of kings? DAVID