The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2014 07 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Buttering up apparently not required by French Nobel prizewinning author ROLLAND
Bulwer-Lytton book for Keneally's young surgeon PELHAM
Brother of Paul Doherty ATHELSTAN
Absolutely correct former part of play EXACT
A passage from Kenneth Roberts NORTHWEST
Three daughters, by Jove! Versions to be seen in St Petersburg and formerly in Bedfordshire GRACES
Scott's is in his private lab. (Bottom shelf) ABBOT
His hands spoke for him at the Capitol CASCA
Covers, like quill and swan PENNAMES
Innocent convocation with great name LATERANCOUNCIL
Title twice used by Faulkner ABSALOM
Underage, like Pusey's prophets? MINOR
They are very shaky, like some writers ASPENS
Showy chap as anti-hero FLASHMAN
Second OT book in Greek island SAMOS
Sailors' patron in Balearic resort EULALIA
Swinburne's readily adaptable Greek god HERMAPHRODITUS
They are exemplified in the letters of Ms Godden ASCENDERS
Godwin hero in typical ebullient mood CALEB
For her, life hung by a thread LACHESIS
Chilean poet under a new guise NERUDA
French poet has really big time (covered by South African money) ROSTAND
Old capital Kipling mentions nine to five, eh? NINEVEH
Moon of Neptune from Thessalonian birthplace of Philo LARISSA
Possibly mask this worship of female principle SHAKTISM
Lady Mary, woman of letters MONTAGU
Italian inventor has nothing on thriller writer LEONARDO
Hindu cultist found via ties now loosened SIVAITE
Greek poet, it may be, having little to say in Julius Caesar, and part of that unreliable PINDARUS
It's easier, perhaps, to recall him as the blind prophet of Thebes TEIRESIAS