The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2011 03 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The cardinal wrote one for his life APOLOGIA
Gothic novelist as Chaucerian tale-teller REEVE
Suffered a sword thrust while hanging about in Denmark ARRAS
Wambaugh characters diligently attending practice sessions THECHOIRBOYS
Warmth of Nabokovian subtitle ARDOR
We cannot discern this writer's character RALPHELLISON
Peak boy had his limitations BENSON
One like Lawrence at his water-trough? OPHIOPHILIST
Components of characters to make Lent seem strange ELEMENTS
Start of opera is finished and somehow not quite true OVERTURE
Some sort of a scan I use to discover Virgil's character ASCANIUS
Quotes for unreliable pie charts EPIGRAPHS
Dr Johnson's peaceful goddess IRENE
Chap encountered going upstairs by 11D INVISIBLEMAN
Landor had a name for being wild SAVAGE
Ballantyne celebrated his good fortune REUBEN
Mrs Moses, fastening wandering Harpo ZIPPORAH
New, royal part in artistic delineation PORTRAYAL
A family of little women in Scottish town MOFFAT
'The specialist demagogue, sustained by his gang and his --s, his spies and secret police' (The Shape of Things to Come, H. G. Wells) HEELER
Possibly Diana's famous swimmers NAIADS
The moon sleeps with him, and would not be awaked, said Portia ENDYMION
He achieved redemption in 1772 BROOKE
Italian doctors who ministered to Caterina's victims? MEDICI
Like Ewart's love affair IMAGINARY
Only Scottish lake to serve Stevenson's Beau Austin MENTEITH
Hood's strange Friesian FAIRINES
It carries grave information for Dickens character HEADSTONE