The Times Specialist 2012 07 06 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Describing most of Dickens's characters in London district, in the middle	ECCENTRIC
It is the test of sincerity, according to Ezra Pound	TECHNIQUE
Heard monotony of hymn	TEDEUM
Intrusion by eponymous Lawrence character	TRESPASS
Round songs for ill-disposed Scandinavians	TROLLS
Scott told his fortunes	NIGEL
'O bounding breeze, O rushing seas!/ At last, at last — them there!' ( A. H. Clough)	UNITE
A crab's metamorphosis into the Gold Bug, say	SCARAB
Nicholas Linnaer a whit(ish) one	NINJA
Expensive French ego of Colette heroine	CHERI
''Well, well', said Sampson . . . . 'this is wide of the —'' (The Old Curiosity Shop)	BULLSEYE
Burgess's mechanical fruit	ORANGE
Much sought-after red agent	PIMPERNEL
How Housman's years came	UNEXPECTEDLY
Short notes so included pet's rise and fall	STACCATO
Possible super-anxiety for high-flying literary man	SAINTEXUPERY
Old magistrate, one of ten preoccupied with twelve tables	DECEMVIR
4's space traveller – lèse majesté, perhaps, to characterize him as 11	LITTLEPRINCE
Apparent disagreement on the cover of early work by Daudet	LEPETITCHOSE
Solomon sang of its vineyards (in Eng. edition)	ENGEDI
Miss Blyton confused, taken in by inviting gesture from confirmed bachelor	BENEDICK
Mayne entry certain to win Thames race	BLUEBOAT
Composer is titled all right	BARTOK
Guide for those to whom geometry is all Greek	EUCLID
Settle who described China's	CONQUEST
His travel upset by those in opposition on stage	THERIVALS
Gardening writer with a dark side?	JEKYLL
Servant sent to Paris by master remembered for his fatherly advice	REYNALDO

Describing most of Dickens's characters in London district, in the middle

ECCENTRIC

It is the test of sincerity, according to Ezra Pound

TECHNIQUE

Heard monotony of hymn

TEDEUM

Intrusion by eponymous Lawrence character

TRESPASS

Round songs for ill-disposed Scandinavians

TROLLS

Scott told his fortunes

NIGEL