The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2013 04 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Doyle the Destroyer? CONAN
Fresh sortie from those supporting the British in the American Revolution TORIES
Fleece keeper gets set back by Irish poet AETES
Use a star to make father of stars ASTRAEUS
Ulysses' men who forgot to avoid the fruit course LOTOPHAGI
Welsh novelist puts the boot in Nell's comeback LLEWELLYN
'You said: 'Go, get thee to a nunnery / Or get a fool to marry you'' (Anna —) AKHMATOVA
Continue to play with a name for Bronte ACTON
Here is one whose poem was written on water TOMLINSON
His lenten stuff something of a red herring NASHE
Revolting type in villain's part - a customary piece of fast casting SPARTACUS
Cup much sought after by titled contestants GRAIL
Mags erring, perhaps, taking illustrations from other publications GRANGERISM
Historian's address possibly [email protected] HERODOTUS
It may be spotted with foresight, say SAGA
Jack's jack in laureate's verse? SEAFEVER
Italian artist, designed and built his own gallery VASARI
Late delivery from Auden NIGHTMAIL
Such a device may have a bearing HERALDIC
Thackeray's traveller encountered on the beach SANDS
'The servants —ed out their excuses from the kitchen' (Jane Austen, Mansfield Park) HALLOO
'Thou art too low to be their lawful love, and too high to be their unlawful —' (Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth) LOON
She had a Norman cap and ancient French ear-rings EVANGELINE
Silver article on pipe broken in spring AGANIPPE
Aschenputtel: grim-sounding version of French classic CINDERELLA
American playwright a Rolling Stone gathering moss for identification? HART
Capote's nocturnal pedigree? TREE
A mere puppet of Stravinsky PETROUCHKA
Acting queen for Launcelot ELAINE
Rhona is confused by Abraham's ancestor, possibly because he is his brother NAHOR
Reliable restorer of old manuscripts SELLOTAPE
Nobleman whose title seems to include one of Macbeth's ANGUS