The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 03 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Moderate tantrum from Opie TEMPER
One of those bare and ruined in sonnet CHOIR
Press, at the end of the day, produces sarcasm IRONY
Redhead keeps artist for composer GRAINGER
So engaged by Simon Gray OTHERWISE
To preoccupy magnificently, as with Robert Merrick OBSESS
Mark, perhaps, an unquestionable truth GOSPEL
Roy Campbell said that, like wives, they are seldom entirely faithful TRANSLATIONS
Enterprise for Heinlein's cavalrymen STARSHIP
Early Bloch-buster, not exactly meteoric SHOOTINGSTAR
Burns unit in short-term employment MOUSE
Auden's date is not any Sunday NONES
Ordinary boy with good example of Gregorian chant PLAINSONG
Esoteric third character in mixed 6 is quiet ORPHIC
A month of birds for triumvir OCTAVIAN
'That commonly called the plot, whether intricate or —' (Milton , Samson Agonistes) EXPLICIT
The fear of first tiny blooper by Machen TERROR
Unexpectedly key rivals for minor goddesses VALKYRIES
Well known sign of Norwegian anguish SCREAM
Gains a lot of weight (one who forged in 1984) WINSTONSMITH
He saw himself as king, with Miranda as his queen STEPHANO
Hurry back to witch in Bronze Age tower NURHAG
It meant mischief to Hamlet MALLECHO
Jan van der Post offering a place to drink, out of the sun ABAROFSHADOW
Lawrence's thankless work, owing nothing to Keats's beautiful woman SANSMERCI
Strange leper on island as humorist PERELMAN
Ancient kingom inhabited by Byron, Huxley and Priestley? ALBANY
A thief of Corelli BARABBAS