The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 01 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A bird myth rewritten in rapturous choral hymn DITHYRAMB
A brother of 1 Ac. ELDER
Bulwer -- -- Strachey, literary men LYTTON
Causley's seamen to offer hornpipe? HANDS
Cleopatra's champion in part an archery instructor ASCHAM
Essayist coolly concealing names CONNOLLY
Where Hughes got the wind up JAMAICA
Faithful theme of 1Ac. LOYALSUBJECT
He did harvest poems SANDBURG
I call about five to reach actor-manager IRVING
It is therefore in Cartesian observation ERGO
It runs softly yet drowns the Past, Thomas thought STREAM
Keats found December this nighted DREAR
Levy, though not on poet Amy TITHE
Murderess who married an angel TESS
Nearest a sort of dramatic cantata SERENATA
Publishes results ISSUES
Self-confessed cut of Eliot's features CLERICAL
Those of 21 Grigson sound absurd ISLES
'To create something exceptional, your ---- must be relentlessly focussed in the smallest detail' (Giorgio Armani) MINDSET
Household name from Chaucer GEOFFREY
The French on park seat at start of the year find humorous writer BENCHLEY
Welsh character (as Scottish psycho) BEGBIE
Words sung bring it back to Free French model LIBRETTI
Enigma not sorted out for essayist MONTAIGNE
Wilkie Collins made him count FOSCO
Danish queen who drank too much GERTRUDE
Artist and munitions manufacturer produced dramatic results JOHNFLETCHER
Some leading lights of Terence Rattigan FLAREPATH
Missing link gets time with American version of churlish Athenian philosopher APEMANTUS