The Times Specialist 2014 01 03 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
First Booker Prize winner found many from whom to enquire	ALOTTOASK
Tempestuous girdle user. And fast withal	ARIEL
Guy from Waugh recalling Richard III	CROUCHBACK
Hardy's first woman, right? With peculiar need	EVERDENE
His work had the sweet smell of success	LEHMAN
"Remit to the gentleman in the — —, the disparaging epithet of fellow" (Scott, A Legend of Montrose)	REDBONNET
Steele's family	NATION
Long-odds runner backed by right, we hear	OUTSIDER
Satellite Titaness	TETHYS
Valediction from Hemingway, possibly suggested by a Hellenistic statue of Alexandros	AFAREWELLTOARMS
Said to be delivered from Exmoor by Blackmore	RIDD
More cruel , but perhaps not quite as cruel as Brutus' dagger blow	UNKINDER
and Fontane wrote of a woman taken in it	ADULTERY
Pale warriors warned, the beautiful woman had the knight in it ...	THRALL
Nothing in pie for this pack of occultists	TAROT
An opponent of Desmond Bagley	ENEMY
Fowles booked one of them	MAGI
Poet's party (apolitical)	COCKTAIL
Relations in some garbled tavern airs	NARRATIVES
He has naturally selected his belief	DARWINIST
"Shall we despise the — song?" (Anne Brontë)	SKYLARKS
London thoroughfare where Sherlock Holmes first seen?	STRAND
Ballarat's was apparently a brilliant discovery	STOCKADE
Sorrowful English author of Juliette	SADE
They say he wrote of grapes?	ROTH
Stracheyesque Woolf character who followed St John	HIRST
Pathetic knight shows fever with impertinence	AGUECHEEK
Historian promoting cultivation, we're told	GARDINER
Novelist Francis is posh in the beginning	STUART

First Booker Prize winner found many from whom to enquire

ALOTTOASK

Tempestuous girdle user. And fast withal

ARIEL

Guy from Waugh recalling Richard III

CROUCHBACK

Hardy's first woman, right? With peculiar need

EVERDENE

His work had the sweet smell of success

LEHMAN

"Remit to the gentleman in the — —, the disparaging epithet of fellow" (Scott, A Legend of Montrose)

REDBONNET