The Times Specialist 2014 02 21 - Crossword Answers

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

Novelist seen in road by one German stream

STEINBECK

With victories like his, who needs defeats?

PYRRHUS

French and Russian agreements from novelist

OUIDA

Lime made a comeback in his best-known work

KASTNER

A supporter, say, of folk tales

PROPP

Wickedness is associated with the Pine-Bender

SINIS