The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2013 06 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BIRD TALK CHAT
Possibly first English opera – Shadwell motivated by bardic storm THETEMPEST
Not weighty reasons, they say, for repeating the same old idea LEITMOTIFS
That of state a McCarthyism? MASK
She of Avonlea and Ingleside ANNE
'He was . . . acceptable — — as a part of what we may call its bread-crumb' (George Eliot. Theophrastus Such) INSOCIETY
Nobody was thus genteelly self-important POOTERISH
Wife of Lewis's renowned doctor - became a Fletcher? LEORA
Trustworthy as Lyall's intentions HONOURABLE
Some difficult-to-read comments of Norman Lindsay? SCRIBBLES
Lampedusa confused it with 'used' ALAMP
George Taylor's view of Earth ITSAMADHOUSE
One of those windborne for Andrews, possibly from Flowers in the Attic PETAL
'Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision' – some of Virginia Woolf's FINALWORDS
8's was full of sweet airs for Caliban ISLE
Earnest suggestion of Emma Harte to her granddaughter HOLDTHEDREAM
Maritime flier unfortunately shot down by member of crew THEALBATROSS
Mafioso as sponsor? GODFATHER
Like new work from writer, now late POSTHUMOUS
Latin historian identified by student climber LIVY
If Greek, don't touch it, said Virgil (more or less) GIFT
May be used to analyse writer's output GRAPHOLOGY
Frank Sargeson thought it sufficient ONCE
Creative Southerner portrays president with cloak TRUMANCAPOTE
A god's sore back EROS
Father of pre-Raphaelites PATER
Document copying device suitable for Tour de France? CYCLOSTYLE
A widely favoured hot article by general manager occasions pithy remark APOPHTHEGM