The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 07 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
His head of state was barely visible ANDERSEN
Additional charges for very minor characters EXTRAS
Her garden sounded relevant ELIZABETH
Poor verse, or libretti for bad operettas, at the end of the day POETASTERY
The Raven, from Dickens GRIP
Orsino would have had it of music EXCESS
Lean Trollopean chaplain SLOPE
Hardy farmer James, always with strange need EVERDENE
Paul Theroux saw more than fifty happy ones paddling the Pacific ISLES
Humour of Burton MELANCHOLY
Poet misled Wilde, say DAYLEWIS
Freeman portrayed its highway HEART
Political economy is such a science, thought Carlyle DISMAL
Strauss's old lecher said to be bovine OCHS
Steward well-known by Edgar for what he was OSWALD
Sort of stuff offered by Hay and Wolfe RIGHT
Some chablis, then chardonnay, for Dorset mayor HENCHARD
Adams heroine gets these wrong, right afterwards ESTHER
Singers perceived – the scheme of this verse, is easy to see, and that may well be for better or worse ABBA
Jean Plaidy's was victorious VICTORIA
Itinerant preacher as murderee in Sandbourne ALECDURBERVILLE
He got icon wrong in rationalist building style NEOGOTHIC
Duke of Anjou to rule (that is, king) REIGNIER
'He . . . running into the house, exposed his back and — to the whole family' (Smollett, Humphrey Clinker) SCONCE
Boorish cavalry officer from Victorian fiction, said to be from Northern Ireland DERRIMAN
Blake's night flier INVISIBLE
African Queen achieved nothing DIDO
'Politic, cautious, and meticulous; / Full of high —, but a bit obtuse.' (T. S. Eliot) SENTENCE
Seen in church, but said to be opposed to singing ANTECHOIR