The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 10 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Premier student of Homer GLADSTONE
'She urged what she could to — me to it' (John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress) DISHEARTEN
A history, we're told, occurring at nightfall ACRONYCHAL
A pound for anyone understanding Lingua Franca in India POONA
Activity of Maugham's eponymous MacKenzie EXPLORING
And concerning second – first name of renowned instrumentalist ANDRES
Large Welsh girl as Scottish poet OSSIAN
Like Sir Peter's autobiograpical persona? EXPENSIVE
Mime comes back to portray giant of Moab EMIM
Not quite true surveys for old Italians ETRUSCANS
His novel ideas published as stop press? INNES
Gaboriau's brief DOSSIER
French dramatist takes encore ill, highly suspicious CORNEILLE
Fractured a peasant's feet ANAPAESTS
Former characteristic of a piece from French literature EXTRAIT
First illuminated in old book INITIAL
Father of Aestheticism PATER
Call up first dealer reducing Aesop's fabulous tome DRAFT
Autumn came jovial on for him THOMSON
Opera with jester revealing rascal SCALA
Panacea offered by Nahum at gallery TATE
Pie cooked in seat of kings for fallen Roman traitor Tarpeia
White tale might simply be relative by Sunday AUNTS
Where Macaulay found pleasure remains RUINS
Two notes to any I suggested for composer DOHNANYI
She gave us the flower of criminologists ALLINGHAM
'Racine's character murdered in a bath' A lie? Not wholly ATHALIE
'Dames' an unreliable translation for bacchantes MAENADS
'. . . — s and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies' (Jane Austen, Persuasion) TRESSEL
Opera repeatedly fashionable, coming back twice for maestro TOSCANINI
Anger not applicable in Spenserian symbol of hope for peace IRENA
I am in former Soviet republic, identifying Shakespearian kidnapper BELARIUS