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