The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2011 02 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
'I've got quite -- and dismal' (Mrs Gaskell, Wives and Daughters) MOPED
American coin in French play - unlikely to come down tails EAGLE
Anderson described the egg's TRIUMPH
Characteristic of Le Carré's lover NAIVETE
Scene of showdown for the Gun Shy ABILENE
Possibly one true description of travel writer's situation ENROUTE
Lovelorn, doggerel-writing poet of the French state DUMAINE
Levantine beheads Victorian novelist ISRAELI
Kay Boyle's day, preceding a glad one WEDDING
Film of Norris's McTeague produced by good English director GREED
Expatiate on effect of Alice's cake ENLARGE
Early Italian drystone dyker in memoirs of Yourcenar HADRIAN
Defoe had a short way with him DISSENTER
Slander holiday of 1Ac MALIGNFIESTA
Thread of Harraden's mystery GUIDING
Vanbrugh's original settler? PILGRIM
Reflections on Vivaldi from 1Ac? THEREDPRIEST
William Coyle wrote of its leader STAFF
'. . . this comes of letting ye gang a- -- for a day . . .' Scott, Old Mortality SODGERING
Thorpe's awkward start to ode STROPHE
Composer to reward favourite, say TIPPETT
Mr Micawber regretted these extroverted second expenditures OUTGOINGS
New view of sheepdog at top of some critics' list of works by 1 Across THEAPESOFGOD
The sharpest French accent? ACUTEST
Why new, dismal version of avant-garde artist? WYNDHAMLEWIS
Bellow summoned up this Lord of the Elements HENDERSON
Theatre I leave to see musical based on Dickens work OLIVIER
You are said to lead right into the valley to find a creator of quartet DURRELL