The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 05 14

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The present, as seen by Nabokov GIFT
The old man hobbles to set about getting secondhand document PALIMPSEST
Symphony for a clergyman (and a neophyte) APASTORAL
A noble version of Lear EARL
A certain licence in publishing IMPRIMATUR
'Softly croons the -- , loudly hoot the owls' (John Betjeman) RADIOGRAM
A setting for Clea (and Cleo . . .) ALEXANDRIA
'It would say little, indeed, for Lucy's -- or my Quakerism' (Bernard Barton, Letter 1837) CHURCHIANITY
Latin man retains Russian agreement for Scandinavian leader VIDAR
He gave us Alastor MYASKOVSKY
Tudor ballet a guide for desert wanderers PILLAROFFIRE
Masonic river? ISIS
Audibly eager actor KEAN
Saki gave us these postwar playthings TOYS
Dessicated doctor friend of Scott protagonist DRYASDUST
Dali's was visible FEMME
Sound of noble Austen hero KNIGHTLEY
Signs of additions among these campers and sportsmen AMPERSANDS
Ruth Kahn (a CIA mystery) - pupil of 1A KHACHATURIAN
Room for James Merrill INNER
Hardy types test Haydn's composition THEDYNASTS
Novelist evokes expression of surprise AGEE
Forethought secured by Aeschylus, liberated by Shelley PROMETHEUS
Four neatly realigned for Cedric Errol FAUNTLEROY
Blackmore's girl with connection to Welsh poets? CLARA
End of church seen in a pseudomartyr's memoirs APSE
Conspirator offers brandy to American, fine champagne to you and me MARCUSBRUTUS
Seemingly lofty, proud and arrogant - in defence of the Alamo, a brave man MOAB