The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2012 12 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
'And — in sudden seas of light, / My heart pierced thro with fierce delight ...' (Tennyson, Poems, 1833) ISLED
'This brown clay model is a characteristic —' (Henry Reed, Lessons of the War) TERRAIN
A brother of Acton? ELLIS
Ancient weapon makes a hit among those following literary fad CATAPULT
This kind of clue near the plains of Stevenson ACROSS
Two measures applied after fever for Welsh officer FLUELLEN
Version of Virgil from Knox SPIRITUAL
Very handy, very big chap, returning to make legal claim against thorn bush BRIAREUS
These pieces old hat stuff from William Plomer? MUSEUM
Candid, sort of intense, gothic doctor FRANKENSTEIN
Swinnerton's account of a notion of Francis Brett's? THEYOUNGIDEA
Some of his work variable? Enigmatic? ELGAR
Eliot victim, given a bit of rope BECKET
French study intended to test student's skill ETUDE
Ginsberg published its news PLANET
In Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, the speaker is therefore this REGRETFUL
Like Albanian coast where young woman, mourning, disguised, resourceful, walked ashore ILLYRIAN
Nero's version names Belgian artist ENSOR
Poe's raven would not make the least such expression of respect OBEISANCE
"How well I remember those weeks following your return from Spain.... — said!" (Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate) NUFF
Story of a spaniel trs. Patrick O'Brian? PAPILLON
Self-styled in Who's Who as 'poet and hack' BETJEMAN
Pain introduced her, and brought about her exit ELIZA
Novelist and soldier of the French GIDE
Hoffmann's 'Girl with the Enamel Eyes' COPPELIA
He wrote in Fleet Street and in a music-hall DAVIDSON
Factional Italian history written in Spain ICLAUDIUS
Documentary writer in Civil War period. Miles in front as a rule TOMALIN
Council condemning iconoclasts from Midi town quarter? NICENE
Age in which Sid makes a comeback, to establish new records EDISON