The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 08 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Bill known to be associated with Galatea ACIS
Thousands hold a fairy – really big game! MAMMOTH
Shortening, as in pastry, etc. ABBREVIATION
Mere pub, but highly prized in 1984 HOTELDULAC
One of an oracular pair in second book URIM
Fatal tipple for the 'false, fleeting and perjur'd' MALVASIA
Frame traitor CASEMENT
Cymbeline sequel appreciated by Claudius CARACTACUS
Confucius he claim Chinese one PENTATEUCH
Computerwise scribbler? HACK
Fielding brilliant here during its third century ETON
'For Cynthia doth in sciences abound, /And gives to their professors —s large' (Spenser, Colin Clout's Come Home Againe STIPEND
From whose 17 Tennyson looked 'on great Orion' LOCKSLEYHALL
Objectives initiating early Norse dramatic sagas ENDS
'Notice the — suppressions of his face' (H. G. Wells) SMUG
Noxious growth in Java, up a street in Bandung? UPASTREE
Partridge's start ORIGINS
Recommended for elevating reading AMBO
Prize required for astrophysics TROPHY
King with adulterous wife and revolting nephew ARTHUR
Hurtful as one of Gordon's evil-doers MALEFICENT
Jerome protagonists talked it over in this TRIALOGUE
Like a 25 making upward progress GLOSSARIAL
Latin dramatist possibly from north-east Crete TERENCE
A chapel for Scrooge? EBENEZER
A lot of bloomers in Lakeland HOST
A well-known London suicide MARTINEDEN
Astringent Ulster graduates ALUMNI
Benighted in Tennessee IGUANA
Caravaggiesque brute? (Nose out of joint) TENEBROUS