The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2009 12 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Comfort offered it with the wedding. Possibly of the shotgun variety? HASTE
Deity in new record melody NEPTUNE
It is sharp in one composer TARTINI
Key characters in Lear, the Scottish play, and a Russian play THREESISTERS
French novelist is bad actor in single combat DUHAMEL
Mann produced man from here: an eminent Stewart LARAMIE
Retain the ambition in Bradford work HOLDTHEDREAM
Thackeray character in two writers PENDENNIS
Second OT book in Greek island SAMOS
Son of king of of Scotland, and Albion, perhaps DONALBAIN
Some comic rondos from Greek composition OMICRON
Scottish king becomes Hitler for Huddersfield MALCOLM
Languages found in Joe Lampton guest book? TONGUES
Underwater flower? (associated with crustacean) ANEMONE
Spire dormer might be unclear LUCARNE
Valentino, king of Ruritania, we hear RUDOLPH
Talent in O'Hara's set-piece stories ASSET
Swordsman uses pointed weapon (silver, new article) DARTAGNAN
"The crooked –– - ––s / Grey with their fleecy moss and misseltoe" (Southey, Madoc) APPLETREE
Ass Clio prepared for informal gatherings SOCIALS
"When I mount the –– chair / Wha will sit beside me there?" (Burns, The Rantin' Dog) CREEPIE
Scary book as treatment for backache? SPINECHILLER
Peaks attained by Amy Fox HEIGHTS
Herbert's saintly stalemate HOLYDEADLOCK
Disadvantage of amusing song CATCH
Ferlinghetti's life ENDLESS
French life in credit instrument CLAVIER
Hall Caine's city – 21, perhaps? ETERNAL