The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 02 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Bird-lover in fabled account LEDA
Apocryphal protagonist associated with Smollett TOBIAS
Avuncular narrator REMUS
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
Tchaikovsky's tragic noblewoman from Adriatic resort? FRANCESCA
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
A gate opened by Katie Hickman, revealing first letter arriving by railway AVIARY
'The dread ---- - that is, death - will reign until the human race has begun a new cycle' (Vidal, Kalki) YAMA
Encampment featured in Exodus may be taken from Macbeth (amply described) ETHAM
Genre leads to higher rankings in light literature easily read THRILLER
Julia Frankau's was in jeopardy JOSEPH
Pipe (English? American?) for a loyal giant BRIAREUS
Modify ritual to produce intensive instruction TUTORIAL
Middleton's good Cheapside girl CHASTMAYD
Marathon participant won at least thirteen literary prizes AESCHYLUS
Lawrence work, ending in one by Stephens? THERAINBOW
Last resort for Mailer, perhaps, viewed in the face of convention MIAMI
Jerome journal not so busy IDLER
Gillette's most confused damsel e'er staged ESMERELDA
Hornung's nocturnal robber reinforced by Koestler THIEF
His haiku not everyone's cup of tea? ISSA
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
Greek poet makes Cretan seem mistaken MENECRATES