The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 09 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Southern conservatives in literature STORIES
Spark's scarves? THECOMFORTERS
The talk of the fourth estate? JOURNALESE
Lots – of byes, etc? recorded by James Leasor HOSTS
"Poor M. de Narbonne! how he will be shocked and –– ––!" (Frances Burney, Diary, 1846) LETDOWN
Afternoon reading, maybe, with Ian Hay's Pip EMMA
Alsatian pope, like one who has his pride LEONINE
Byzantine governorship – formerly a Thrace, perhaps EXARCHATE
Circus workers aiding spymaster SMILEYSPEOPLE
England is for it, said Beryl Bainbridge EVER
Munro to be enjoyed in addition to the 284 SAKI
Unconscious sleeve-knitter SLEEP
White expedition leader VOSS
Walpole's had diurnal use LESSONS
Hood's was fair INES
It provides an approach to reading matter LORGNON
Not one of the Swiss family, but with isolated similarities ROBINSONCRUSOE
Redemption for Kingsley's ancient mariner SALVATION
One of A. E. W. Mason's flirts THEPHILANDERER
Scott's right-hand man EVANS
A version of Faulkner's characters on The Candlemass Road? RIEVERS
Much seen – in scores MOLTO
Frustrated filicide of Homeric proportions IDOMENEUS
Descended from Vespasian, like Hope's princess? FLAVIAN
George Russell has title for Scandinavian deities AESIR
Great Goddess, otherwise vide Shakti DEVI
Herbert's verses, from time to time OCCASIONAL
It's easier, possibly, to recall Athena's accidental seer TEIRESIAS
Novelist reveals Mr Fleming returning before Mr Theroux NAIPAUL
English distance covered by Rousseau EMILE