The Times Specialist 2013 11 08 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Cover over old city is like the stuff of melodrama	LURID
Pitch mark made by player on song, possibly	TENORCLEF
Parent takes an age to recognize the hound of Erigone	MAERA
Pastoral poet uses cart with heavy load	DRAYTON
Unexpected line from one playing sad librarian	ADLIB
Hunt celebration with fellow writers	FEAST
Something spicy from critical early naval victory?	SALAMIS
Sure set contrived by sporting writer	SURTEES
According to 16, he ruled in arcadian surroundings, buried in creche music	ECHEMUS
Evidently offered by Riddell's tragedy	SILENCE
Disputable present from Paris	APPLE
See nothing in tape	VIDEO
"Good workmen never blame their tools" (— —)	LORDBYRON
Cicero's remarks were Greek to him	CASCA
Half man as tutor to Achilles	CHEIRON
Counsel from Graves, making rich sneer nastily	SCHREINER
Chronicler of the French enemy	DEFOE
Notice a couple who questioned the death of Shakespeare	MARKTWAIN
Greek writer whom Cicero called father	HERODOTUS
He wrote there and back again	TOLKIEN
Mistakenly cast Verne as dramatist turned novelist	CERVANTES
Its citizens were addressed by one who spoke with the tongues of men and of angels	CORINTH
Papa's maritime senior	THEOLDMAN
Painter portrayed him on paper	ANDREGIDE
His audience under age, his subject someone like you	ROALDDAHL
Press for medieval French city with ancient remains	ABBEVILLE
A comforter from Bloch	SCARF
"Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie — — his best piece of poetry" — —)	BENJONSON
To love César Franck	AIMER
Fiona Macleod, quick on the uptake	SHARP
Ironic commentary heard from woodland god	SATYR
Strange, sad secret of philosopher	DESCARTES

Cover over old city is like the stuff of melodrama

LURID

Pitch mark made by player on song, possibly

TENORCLEF

Parent takes an age to recognize the hound of Erigone

MAERA

Pastoral poet uses cart with heavy load

DRAYTON

Unexpected line from one playing sad librarian

ADLIB

Hunt celebration with fellow writers

FEAST