The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 07 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Much of it is by Shakespeare ADO
Language for a snark if a translation is needed AFRIKAANS
Long periods of travel in the Indies – in a veritable Eden DECADES
First class key to the French symbol CCLEF
Galahad's dangerous seat SIEGE
Hard French hospital room for destroyer of the Wild Boar of the Ardennes DURWARD
He's trying short work with hesitation ESSAYER
Drake's prize for a hothead CACAFUEGO
French dramatist rent Ibsen adaptation BERNSTEIN
Readership, of what Hannibal is said to have consumed? LECTORATE
Poet gets directions correctly ENRIGHT
Porter's kid CISCO
Shylock more confident at University USURER
Unfortunate union in Shaw play MISALLIANCE
Wells character goes nap, with afterthought KIPPS
Surgeon's report of staff with Eric, the king, and haphazard following RODERICKRANDOM
Skeleton in Maugham's cupboard provides some light refreshment CAKESANDALE
Superior guesswork may reveal keyboard instrument in Paris church ORGUE
Show contempt for Pluto DIS
Statuary stone hewn from basalt era ALABASTER
Surely not more Spenser ... NATHEMO
The old-fashioned stuff is ecofriendly in Williams work THECORNISGREEN
"Like ––, that proves bad or good / According as 'tis understood" (Butler, Hudibras) MUSICK
"The cold, unbelieving eye of Englishmen, expectant of –– in manners" (Hawthorne, Dr Grimshawe's Secret) SOLECISMS
"Oh what made fatuous –– toil / To break earth's sleep at all?" (Wilfred Owen, "Futility") SUNBEAMS
American don as novelist DELILLO
An experiment by David Foster EMPATHY
Attractive nymph SIREN
A small quantity of what mother holds is like an elaborate lyric MODICUM
Some hope from Dennis Brutus STUBBORN