The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 02 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Greek poet makes Cretan seem mistaken MENECRATES
His haiku not everyone's cup of tea? ISSA
Hornung's nocturnal robber reinforced by Koestler THIEF
Gillette's most confused damsel e'er staged ESMERELDA
Jerome journal not so busy IDLER
Last resort for Mailer, perhaps, viewed in the face of convention MIAMI
Lawrence work, ending in one by Stephens? THERAINBOW
Marathon participant won at least thirteen literary prizes AESCHYLUS
Middleton's good Cheapside girl CHASTMAYD
Modify ritual to produce intensive instruction TUTORIAL
Pipe (English? American?) for a loyal giant BRIAREUS
Julia Frankau's was in jeopardy JOSEPH
Genre leads to higher rankings in light literature easily read THRILLER
Encampment featured in Exodus may be taken from Macbeth (amply described) ETHAM
Avuncular narrator REMUS
'The dread ---- - that is, death - will reign until the human race has begun a new cycle' (Vidal, Kalki) YAMA
A gate opened by Katie Hickman, revealing first letter arriving by railway AVIARY
Apocryphal protagonist associated with Smollett TOBIAS
Playwright suits hit musical to a 't' MAMET
Poet suggests conflicting answers NOYES
Reid's horseman lacked it HEAD
Secretive voices recorded by Buchanan? UNDERTONES
She wanted us to look at her before her highly prized lake hotel BROOKNER
Sort of trap for Pamela's deceived husband BOOBY
Bird-lover in fabled account LEDA
That of Dundas revealed by Linton ATONEMENT
The Vicar of Wakefield, for example, in vehicle richly turned out CLERIC
Where Hardy was in the dark, Brecht shed light INTENEBRIS
His drama first seen in 1940, his theatre didn't appear until 1952 MACCARTHY
His 1981 play was a great hit ROSENTHAL
He wrote before dawn, and later before sunset, we're told HAUPTMANN
Tchaikovsky's tragic noblewoman from Adriatic resort? FRANCESCA