The Times Specialist 2011 05 06 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Soapy antecedent of Pickwick and descendant of 17	SPONGE
First man with a venerable name in Victorian novel	ADAMBEDE
She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed	CLEOPATRA
Glorify a pillar of the church	LAUD
Spontaneous work by Hamilton in final decline	IMPROMPTU
Belief in Mozart Mass	CREDO
&28 Autumn term of assistant teacher's part of school reached by Poe (3,4,2,3,5,2,5)	THEFALLOFTHE
David McKee creation, very big with children	ELMER
Unexpectedly lent name to composer	TELEMANN
Novelist illuminated America	LAMPEDUSA
Young heir holds the answer to one aspect of prosody	SCANSION
'. . . sent off a rousing telegram to the Foreign Office -- ' (Compton MacKenzie, Greece in my Life)	ENCLAIR
Revival of Clark	GOTHIC
Agree to be surrounded by smell in a piece of sentimental rubbish	HOKUM
Philosopher to affirm on strange shore	AVERRHOES
Aldington's former one pound (English)	EXILE
Simon's way	FLANDERS
Dawn of Alexander	AURORA
SEE 1 ACROSS	HOUSEOFUSHER
Twins in radio's Curiosity Shop	DIOSCURI
Jaunty Cockney grocer	JORROCKS
Tax from hospital Lagerkvist founded	TALLAGE
A little German absorbed by Mr Winkle, in The Pickwick Papers	KLEIN
Nothing unusual about Cresswell's knave	ORDINARY
Acclaimed innovator showed no side in return	EDISON
To start with, is a giant in charge here? (that's academic)	ISAGOGIC
'. . . signed their names in one of the old -- registers' (Dickens, Dombey and Son)	SNEEZY
No one can identify the submarine captain	NEMO
Died of wounds, but not in the defence of poetry	SIDNEY
Snag attached to space-walker's vademecum	HITCH

Soapy antecedent of Pickwick and descendant of 17

SPONGE

First man with a venerable name in Victorian novel

ADAMBEDE

She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed

CLEOPATRA

Glorify a pillar of the church

LAUD

Spontaneous work by Hamilton in final decline

IMPROMPTU

Belief in Mozart Mass

CREDO