The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 04 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Gallery gets thanks, and French backing TATE
Excuse for starting a long, interesting book immediately ALIBI
Examination in Tudor alchemy ORAL
Dramatic task for Dr Frank Bryant EDUCATINGRITA
'Favours to none, to all she smiles —' (Pope, Rape of the Lock) EXTENDS
Pose model again (tires badly) RESIT
Perhaps it's easier to envision this chance admirer of Athena bathing TEIRESIAS
Sculptor whose name was welcome in Italy CELLINI
Simple Marryat brassbounder EASY
Scene of operations whence McCarthy reported THEATRE
Scrolled – a capital idea VOLUTED
Stout fellow, this detective NEROWOLFE
Stylish, a turn with Carl Sandburg's poems CHICAGO
Way to treat carelessly in quick-time coda STRETTA
Theban king killed by complex son LAIUS
Actors in this Shaffer play were in the public eye THEPRIVATEEAR
And one of George Egerton's contrarieties perhaps DISCORD
Characters in Irish play seeking white horses? . . . RIDERSTOTHESEA
As if Circe is bewitched in surrender SACRIFICE
and some horses (including the badly bred) find playwright STRINDBERG
Lord of Tyre points to source of sugar ESCANES
Kitchin recorded his aunt's DEATH
It was abroad for John Lehmann EVIL
He took a composed view of Eliot's cats RAWSTHORNE
Italian composer encountered in a scene from clerical life SARTI
It's easy for Spenser ETHE
'Madam Bernstein had fits and ran off to the solitude of her favourite rocks at — —' (Thackeray, The Virginians) TUNBRIDGEWELLS
Mythical wind from our continent and America EURUS
He partly trades authentic expectations for a square meal ESAU
Hope-inspired, romantically idealistic RURITANIA