The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2013 12 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
He tells it like it is, and is alert anyway REALIST
'Nature had it all -- out for me to be the Belle of Hicks Corners' (P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress) DOPED
'The strong rebirth of some tumultuous cloud/ Instinct with fire and — ' (Milton, Paradise Lost) NITRE
A senior grade predecessor of 8. His own predecessor was blown away ELISEUS
Alias of heiress from France? BALTHASAR
Associated with some fellahs by Edwards PHARAOH
Baum city of many magicians and Forbidden Fountain EMERALD
Capital of Paul Scott's India RUPEE
Characterized by Hardy as an intellectualized, emancipated bundle of nerves SUEBRIDEHEAD
Cooper's plain PRAIRIE
Could some aspect of Andy Warhol be in this artist? HOLBEIN
Flemish horse, as royally identified (though German). A proven stayer FLANDERSMARE
Wolf's lover of Troilus, plaything of Achilles, killer of Agamemnon BRISEIS
When South, it's Sydney, according to Cleary BABYLON
The young Wentworths were greatly taken with Henry James's EUROPEANS
Stephen's sort of pope ALEXANDER
Scene of games for 9, with tragic conclusion as predicted by oracle LARISSA
Profit, they say, in good book OBADIAH
Prisoner's epistolary work encouraging Greeks EPHESIANS
One with plenty of pull in Shinar? TOWEROFBABEL
New novel man seen writing last year at a Czech spa ROBBEGRILLET
Murray thought they were the flash-notes of speech OATHS
Locations in which to find Jacobs' urchins, Cooper's lions? AQUARIA
Immigrant Transylvanian count DRACULA
Herculean ancestor from garbled EU press PERSEUS
He was apparently in sixth heaven, and made it through the trilogy EUSTACE
Generous as Trilling's imagination? LIBERAL
Zola's big no trump bid gets the money (1'6) LARGENT