The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2010 07 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Averse, say, to Bentley CLERIHEW
Sort of property shared by Fenton and Mantel VACANT
Some of his impressions of Rome are evergreen RESPIGHI
See trainspotter's victim in Aden, perhaps DIANNE
Concerning Hardy's Melancholy Hussar (in everybody's eye) RETINA
Cross reporter of summitry? BRAINE
Miss Brodie pupil who may also have had a cultivating influence, we hear GARDINER
Mount mount AMPERSAND
Miss Brontë's protagonist declares his belief PROFESSOR
Tribute paid by Auden to amuse, it's rumoured HOMAGE
Warner's caper ESCAPADE
West's counselled the wrong side ADVOCATE
McMurtry's solitary symbol of peace LONESOME
Well-balanced aria in service? EVENSONG
Distant, like 17 who attacked Chesterton REMOTE
Guides for editorials LEADERS
Historian recalling Voss's mystic companion TREVELYAN
'I took them for –s, and violators of the bounds of Modesty' (Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy) AMOROSA
Dramatist who distinguished himself at Blenheim VANBRUGH
Jilly Cooper's short month on a Roman road OCTAVIA
'I shall – these doings before long. I've stood enough of 'em' (George Eliot, Adam Bede) OVERRUN
His play showed affection for no score WILLIAMCONGREVE
Like Malouf's life IMAGINARY
Marxist kind of mimosa MAOISM
Pinter character from Birmingham university ASTON
Pre-publication printing of Maugham story remains pretty dry RAINPROOF
Rent is modified in late addition INSERT
Roberts' hunter at the Borders ORION
He spent a good deal of time in reflection NARCISSUS