The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 10 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Town in Hardy's Wessex, eternally described as Exonbury EXETER
"Lo in the –– clouds your bleating hills / Rejoice with herbage" (John Dyer, The Fleece) SPRINKLING
Standard opening of novel of Rose Macaulay NORM
This business was over in Greeneland AFFAIR
Some writers took a year to complete a first chapter. So that's all right OKAY
Superficial justice in Windsor SHALLOW
Steinbeck's account of trouble at t'packing works? CANNERYROW
"With gazing looks, short sighs, unsettled feet / He stood, but turn'd, as ––, to sun" (Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia) GIRASOL
Partial description of Miss Cooper's old provincial bank? NATIONAL
"O wicked ––, through whom I see no bliss" (A Midsummer Night's Dream) WALL
A poet prepares a précis ABRIDGES
A key Slav bk. adapted for composer KABALEVSKY
Lear dies, sadly, involving stars SIDEREAL
Jolly type on stream in Wheatley series ROGERBROOK
Trollope's girl gets boy, unknown, and with a very small amount of money LADYANNA
Thriller writer has nothing on Renaissance man LEONARDO
She was, quixotically, greatly admired, though failed to appear DULCINEA
They symbolized love for Abercrombie EMBLEMS
Prepare old tutor for battle. The last one ARMAGEDDON
Popular work not referring to Willy Loman BESTSELLER
London setting, researched in a rush KLONDIKE
Let in banal reconstruction from Scottish writer BALLANTINE
Harm done by this author, who is not, however, ruthless RENDELL
Giant rat created by dramatist RATTIGAN
Mrs Craik introduced her husband AGATHA
Eponymous heroine – later seen as a bloomer AMELIA
Diseased elm accused, perhaps, by Peacock MELINCOURT
Colourful outbuilding associated with slaughter BARN