The Times Specialist 2014 02 28 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
One worshipping the holy – witch gets ten afterwards	HAGIOLATER
A French (or Italian?) work of fiction	ROMAN
Rapid biography from Stephen?	SWIFT
Attic potter from Green's home	HERMOGENES
Chronicler of Pilgrims' Progress	CHAUCER
"... a poet should take particular care to guard himself against — ways of speaking" (Addison, The Spectator)	IDIOMATIC
He struck first. Maybe very nearly serve us ill	SERVILIUS
He always has a word for it	ROGET
Purification for suspect archaists	CATHARSIS
Sculptor steep in basic modification	EPSTEIN
Anderson's Captain from the seven seas, heroically drawn	ASHER
Another name for Shaw	ROSS
To some extent Moses hated this goddess of history	SESHAT
One of voices from the brink, say	CHAIN
Hippo man, left confessions	AUGUSTINE
Venerable Eastern clown	AUGUSTE
He anatomised the absurd	NASHE
Lioness in winter?	ELEANOR
Cruel Macedonian king names leading sort of beer all over America	ARCHELAUS
Fielding's diarist to go over on a T-crossing	BRIDGET
Middleton's impartial disagreement	FAIRE
Suitable occasions for amusement, pace Renault	FUNERALS
Notions for a Mirrour	IDEAS
Arrogant weaver from a people round Honduras	ARACHNE
Sort of a beech from Euripides	HECABE
His values were dramatic	MONTAGUE
A pagan, I am included in Shaw's people	GENTILE
Bible singer compared his love's eyes to its fishpools	HESHBON
Article she enclosed to doctor in council at Jerusalem	SANHEDRIN
Verdant area described by Stewart	ACRE
Light character from Henry James	CHRISTINA
Primitive chap gets model (American) for Shakespeare's cynical philosopher	APEMANTUS

One worshipping the holy – witch gets ten afterwards

HAGIOLATER

A French (or Italian?) work of fiction

ROMAN

Rapid biography from Stephen?

SWIFT

Attic potter from Green's home

HERMOGENES

Chronicler of Pilgrims' Progress

CHAUCER

"... a poet should take particular care to guard himself against — ways of speaking" (Addison, The Spectator)

IDIOMATIC