The Times Specialist 2013 11 29 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Wallace's may have been unlucky	ROOM
'When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch / Don't call your — a cross-eyed old bitch' (Kipling, Barrack-room Ballads)	MARTINI
Lost leader's wage for fictional cook	SILVER
His cast found him elusive	PIRANDELLO
Insular character showing plenty of spark, we hear	ROBINSON
Last character had it on in Waugh book	HARDCHEESE
Macaulay said that their soldiers could hardly refrain from cheering	ETRUSCANS
Story starts your average romantic novel	YARN
Some enemies of John Daulton	HOSTILES
Destined to be king of Egypt, he gets a raise somehow (in swindle)	CAESARION
Concerning Sir Herbert and Miss?	REREADS
Complex Oedipus descendant, with kingdom in the best tradition	ETEOCLES
Desire for romantic novelist	HOPE
Disputed territory of Pinter	NOMANSLAND
Engels' bias may indicate heretical sect	ALBIGENSES
Father of Tolstoy	SERGIUS
Genius of Collins	EVIL
Novelist as seaman in prison quarters	CABELL
Outstanding feature of untouchable agent	NESS
Painter of a part of Eros, setting out to become a poet	ROSSETTI
Possibly cosmic fun in a very ancient and enduring philosophy	CONFUCIANISM
Canary made to sing by James O'Hanlon	CALAMITYJANE
Bill at university not acceptable	TABU
Bennett gave him his share, no doubt he had his pride	LION
A memoir of one with a message to the planet	IRIS
''. . . what would you do with him?' ' — him.' 'Shoot him?' 'That's your business.' ' (John Le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl)	NEUTRALISE
'. . . one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads ... of all intelligent —s, even of women' (George Eliot, Adam Bede)	MAMMAL
"Enjoy the merry -- of thy youth!" (Longfellow, The Spanish Student)	SHROVETIDE
Brown study of the secret witness	ORMOND
Ancient city given a head start, so to speak	ICONIUM