The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2013 04 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
He felt he could speak English as well as Percy GLENDOWER
Confused Ephesian wife recalled in an air dangerously evocative ADRIANA
O'Brian created a mate for him SURGEON
Latin main character from Nicholas Nickleby could produce MANTALINI
His traveller was out of luck NASHE
Scott's PO EVANS
Most of California's capital in solemn pledge SACRAMENT
Little sparrow with no regrets PIAF
Commander gets public transport for prophet of famine AGABUS
Seventh forename featured by Hawthorne SEPTIMUS
Shakespeare's cross-dresser who courted Woolf's transexual? GANYMEDE
Imagine an excerpt from Enderby Outside, a tender scene IDEATE
Xerxes possibly Hausa, not quite sure in the end AHASUERUS
Whose, in fact, was 'Chesterton's nightmare'? SYMES
Fatally drunken Greek, addressed by Pound as 'our Friend' ELPENOR
Heavyweight poet, displacing seven tons STEVENSON
He observed the effects of air movement in the salices GRAHAME
A native American writer SAROYAN
A base paint, perhaps, to rename ANABAPTISE
'Thou art not so much as Bastard — ' (Wycherley, The Plain Dealer) EIGNE
Prolific novelist a long way in advance including first French person FARJEON
'. . . kill this lecherous itch with drinking water, / Or live, like a —, on poor-john' Massinger, The Guardian) CARTHUSIAN
Chef begins with cooked rice, as one who could work magic CIRCE
Provenance of Murdoch's girl ITALY
Essayist shows supplement is viable ADDISON
Doré illustrated execution of this king, said to be cruel, apparently a joke AGAG
Scriptural writing wrongly interpreted as trash SHASTRA
Slanderous slave sits there, stirring it up THERSITES
They are invited to a staged performance THEGUESTS
Theatrical byway DRURY
Burns kids WEANS
'This is the chase' he said 'I am gone for ever' (his pursuer not mentioned in the cast) ANTIGONUS