The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2014 02 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Wickedness is associated with the Pine-Bender SINIS
A supporter, say, of folk tales PROPP
Lime made a comeback in his best-known work KASTNER
Stars of performance by Horne ORION
A letter from Borges ALEPH
Bagworthy giant, achieved nothing inside DOONE
Singular Welsh writer to take shape as keen advocate EVANGEL
Monies due in new production for Mozartian hero IDOMENEUS
Masefield involved her in one damned thing after another ELENA
Unfairly blame reps in competition with 20Ac PREAMBLES
The Australian travel writer in Brooke poem? THEHILL
Afterthought to modify bad French in hymn setting PSALM
His downfall came after his masterpiece EMILEZOLA
French and Russian agreements from novelist OUIDA
Novelist seen in road by one German stream STEINBECK
With victories like his, who needs defeats? PYRRHUS
"Stooping d0wn as — he must" (William Cowper) NEEDS
Black-and-white musician from Norway PIEDPIPER
Poet initially seen to differ from creator of Naughty Boy YEATS
Writers and critics agree, it takes first place PREFACE
Pope's card game analysed by Battle OMBRE
Does not include Ash Wednesday, despite appearances EMBERWEEK
Dickens story may ring a bell THECHIMES
"There is in London all that life can afford", as his biography attests ACKROYD
Seneca, for instance, or a Dreiser protagonist STOIC
Novelist noted for his careful brushwork? RAPHAEL
Astronomer-author who made a personal voyage CARLSAGAN
University journal ATHENAEUM
Motown associated by Runyon with a prophet of David DETROIT
Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane AUSTENITE
Add the USA, perhaps, for St Jude THADDAEUS
An effort to include peculiar new ale for friend of Livesey TRELAWNEY