The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2013 01 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Rewrite and sort characters for dramatist ( 7) ROSTAND
Novelist Powell with medium finds opposite meaning ANTONYM
One who did for Sherlock Holmes MRSHUDSON
Jobs of which Cowper offered a unique example TASKS
Ben Okri's occurred at a hallowed place INCIDENTS
Cabbage a high point for poet COLERIDGE
Laws in France for month expected to be windy? VENTOSE
Drayton's blackbird in grouse location OUSEL
Kitchen sink in Italian opera? VERISMO
Greek fabulist initiates all 12's satires or parodies AESOP
'The person whose instructress and — she was' (Ouida, The Massarenes) TORMENTOR
A case for starting a new chapter UPPER
A student tops poor Marie with a large port for the Moor ALMERIA
Prizewinning tragedian confuses chess with polo SOPHOCLES
Socrates identified them as 'venerable goddesses' in Aristophanes' play THECLOUDS
Unreasonable request from Newby ALOTTOASK
The bongleweed came from this salad vegetable source CRESSWELL
Extremes dismissed for Shakespearian actor SNOUT
Fleming's Wiltshireman MOONRAKER
Downfall of existentialist LACHUTE
Drunken stupor recommended by James Purdy? SLEEP
English poet said to be associated with Marx SPENSER
He mixes work and play DRAMATIST
Track of Walpole's master, say TRAIL
School of Updike MUSIC
Stage direction from The Green Terror ENTER
Some slob only coming back for ferryman's tips OBOLS
See where Dr Proudie held sway DIOCESE
Propose me, perhaps, for rumoured professional's verse PROSEPOEM
Priedieus specially set out for playwright EURIPIDES
The one in the pinafore was once a sweeper RULER
Short woodwind piece heard from creative Swede SACHS