The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 04 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Stronghold gets fashionable supports from Shakespearian king FORTINBRAS
Our Man in Italy, say, from Conrad NOSTROMO
Petipa's ballet dancer LABAYADERE
Concerning sound return from Hoffman's work REECHO
HORSEPLAY EQUUS
Incorporeal adventures of Symons SPIRITUAL
Instrument of false spy alert PSALTERY
His early work anatomized wit LYLY
Determined walk of little woman MARCH
His agnomen was by no means clear JUDE
Lear's botany was such rubbish NONSENSE
Late talk recorded by King and Lyttleton DIALOGUES
Drayton's notion of verse IDEA
He rang baronet by arrangement, revealing satire on the Gothic novel NORTHANGERABBEY
One of Hailey's well-rounded revolutionaries WHEEL
Meredith heroine is an academician following a friend of Chopin SANDRA
Matches I used in abstract art TACHISME
Flower seen where Aeneas lies buried NUMICIUS
Old king with sad dirge for poet COLERIDGE
Sort of pert and waggish poet PETRARCH
Attempts by Hazlitt, perhaps ESSAYS
Art critic indicates the right American relative RUSKIN
'And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the — and the Thummim' (Exodus) URIM
A sequel from Allen AFTERMATH
Several characters recast as ragman ANAGRAMS
St Petersburg boy known as woodworker SAWYER
Snare employed by Titania COBWEB
Holy man (single) becomes novelist STONE
Is a beautiful French woman Dumas' eponymous queen? ISABELLE