The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2013 07 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Rewritten tensely, an ordinary Victorian novel EASTLYNNE
Possibly as clues summarizing play 'For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo' ESCALUS
Go back among trees sheltering Coleridge in French town LIMOGES
Gray life revealed by one making good, very big points GOSSE
He tells the story of the killing of 24D by Oedipus – he could make it a series TEIRESIAS
Queen from Haggard, to a degree SHEBA
A squadron of ravens, say SABRE
A match for Roman goddess VESTA
Sacred text has unpaid rewrite UPANISHAD
She had a constant lover STAEL
Perhaps he (Michael) gave Goliath's sword to David AHIMELECH
Bishop answerable for precipitation? SWITHIN
Jezebel's daughter stimulating Racine and Mendelssohn ATHALIE
'How now, Captain —! Have you quit the mines?' (Henry V) MACMORRIS
Coarse sound of ancient traditional story from diarist GROSSMITH
Conan Doyle's Dr Leon in stark valley STERNDALE
Some long work that promised a test of concentration - actually puts to sleep SEDATES
Ouida's story of a dream ARIADNE
High flier as outstanding backer? ARCHANGEL
Clarence's Plantagenet countess, seen as John's earl . . . SALISBURY
Royal personage with passive role in Freudian theory LAIUS
Butler's bigamous kitchen maid ELLEN
Poet, say – or fiction writer (after office hours) YATES
Large scale work might provide spice EPICS
Posh cleric in battered tile might have been an opponent of technology LUDDITE
Royal issue of Zeus and Io EPAPHUS
Could it be a story including a sort of fable? BEAST
'And on his grave, with shining eyes, / The —n stars look down' (Arnold, Obermann Once More) SYRIA
Swiss influence at the font? HELVETICA
Poet earl to loot French town SACKVILLE
'Miss Cream's visit — with a week of superb weather' (Margery Sharp, Cluny Brown) COINCIDED
Comfort offered as the strange start to the title HASTE