The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 03 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Benchley's birdcatcher? EARLYWORM
Extremes of energy retain record panegyric ELOGY
Musketeer in Macedonia ATHOS
indicating two quartets? OCTET
Verse tool ingeniously used by president ROOSEVELT
Flute played at her nuptials HIPPOLYTA
Favour for Canadian poet SERVICE
New staples for drawing PASTELS
Buckler chronicled this rising of the young David REBELLION
Bell memorialized some of its eminences YORKSHIRE
Some locking of horns recorded by Howell DUELL
American money I invested in Spanish wine for Duke of Vienna VINCENTIO
A colleague of John Grisham PARTNER
Rogue exposed by Walpole HERRIES
Possibly parse musical notation . . . PRESA
27 of history HERODOTUS
'The -- is larger than a blackbird, and feeds on haws' (Gilbert White, Natural History of Selborne) OUSEL
Tyre associated with this wasted capital NINEVEH
Innocent as John Le Carré's lover NAIVE
One out of the middle of the bat for epic poet HOMER
One of Ballantyne's trail-blazers, or one of Cooper's? PIONEER
Old Man of the Scandinavian theatre THEFATHER
State of Eberhart's verse MAINE
Some inn could reveal crime writer SIMENON
Serious German surrealist ERNST
Possibly a rash friend of naval officer SARAH
Picture of fliers from New Zealand. Frame provided RAINBIRDS
'That transatlantic dram which is poetically named an -- ' (Dickens, Our Mutual Friend) EYEOPENER
People like Kant and Berkeley who have notions about a leaning IDEALISTS
Old king figures in my celeb characters CYMBELINE
Offstage alarms are venomous, they say TOCSINS
Pole where H. Allen Smith felt inferior TOTEM