The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 02 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Rewrite a drama for the fleet ARMADA
Arcadian city, for example, found in shrub TEGEA
Sort of pert and waggish Italian poet PETRARCH
Masque of firm amount returned COMUS
Mrs Bennet offered one, for a start AXIOM
Persian queen in perilous times - there was constant danger ESTHER
Poet a big hit in the States? HOMER
Settle for a later adaptation of this Beaumont and Fletcher play? PHILASTER
Some model philosophers cover riddler's retreat DELPHI
Leonard was his friend FREY
First man with new idea for means of communication MEDIA
Disallow 'winter' (dictionary definition), in part due to unseasonable warmth? INTERDICT
Test failed. But editor says let it stand STET
They arrived in haste for James Jones SOME
World War bomber created Civil War record MITCHELL
Wilder film setting may seem flat APARTMENT
Titanic survivors, but later mostly ruined COLOSSAE
Warlord and hostage-taker may be all in NIALL
A stern doctor, we're told SLOP
1 Ac. not prepared to give credit UNBELIEVER
(See 13) ISLAND
'Mr Arabin — himself in at St Ewolds' (Trollope) READS
&21 Additional lesson may be derived from Patrick O'Brian book DESOLATION
Some litigants from the French theatre PLAIDEURS
Beginning of the end of parades of Fords SOMEDONOT
Creator of Paradise Lost (Italian version) GUGLIELMI
Some exceptionally clever type loses head following chaps in Coriolanus MENENIUS
Possibly be rich icon as composer BOCCHERINI
Organist-composer, could be, for French shepherd FROBERGER
Novel by Einstein found in glassworks, we hear ONTHEBEACH
Milton's heathen PANIM
Beadles About? Possibly offering this sort of pompous self-importance BUMBLEDOM