The Times Specialist 2013 03 15 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Academic who includes archaic pronoun is most senior	DOYEN
Bunch with antiquated item in Streatfield	POSYFOSSIL
Tardy settlers, Raven thought	RICH
'— was at least seventy. She was wearing a sleeveless frock of green chiffon . . . it fitted like a bursting glove' (Somerset Maugham)	ROSIE
It seems he wrote the kind of poetry he wanted	MACDIARMID
26 found one in the desert	LAMP
Strange siblings may change sides with writers	WEIRDSISTERS
Defiant response to peasant's last goodnight	EXCELSIOR
One at head of column may put editor's contribution in its place	FILELEADER
They stole from Schiller	THEROBBERS
A sound signified, they say, that of Linton's Dundas	ATONEMENT
Ibsen character richest in adversity	CHRISTINE
Socialist in firm grip for statement of belief	CREDO
Pretty pics may be made of mechanized handwriting	TYPESCRIPT
Competitive gallery from Alison Lowrie?	TATE
Henry IV felt Paris was worth one	MASS
Switched-on character from Asimov	ROBOT
Septenary of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle	HEPTAMETER
First impression may stand to be corrected	PROOFSHEET
In painting is nervous reaction – but that's to lack appreciation of it	INARTISTIC
Orwell showed the way to a Lancashire one	PIER
Waste time revising German song	IDLE
Mercy's talent obscured in murderous queen	CLYTEMNESTRA
Missionary characteristic of Byron's statues 'which climb to crush the imperial urn'	APOSTOLICISM
Short news item, an American measure – it may be the limit	PARAMETER
'If of my reign Prophetic — hath told, /That it shall never end' (Paradise Regained)	WRIT
Valley of romantic novelist	DELL
Cornered, it's marginal	SHOULDERNOTE

Academic who includes archaic pronoun is most senior

Bunch with antiquated item in Streatfield