The Times Specialist 2014 06 13 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Addict who explored murder as a fine art	DEQUINCEY
Choosing to act like Dickens's Blues and Buffs	ELECTING
Concealed, like Garnett's incentives	ULTERIOR
Written by Auden to a godson	EPISTLE
Poll the barber. "With something of the bird in his nature"	PAULSWEEDLEPIPE
Prince of Prophets	ISAIAH
Sayers sent him on vacation	HANGMAN
Savage raptor a family man	FALCON
Prolix old man in general service, gave flaky advice better dismissed as "all Greek"	NESTOR
She had a vested interest in young men. They offered her money	JUVENTAS
Juvenal, Elmore Leonard protagonist of 1987, was seen to —	BEINTOUCH
Drawing master helped depict white-clad character	HARTRIGHT
Music on certified programme includes pieces starting in sonata form	CONCERTI
St Columba owed him his life	ADAMNAN
Time for Williams's song	NIGHT
Roman playwright, with a name for comedy, changes it in suit, perhaps	TITINIUS
Pope supporting new scale for Greek medicine man	ASCLEPIUS
"A — can't have an alibi for every minute of the day" (Graham Greene)	GEEZER
"... the masses in towns are, —, destitute of faith in the unseen" (Augustus Jessopp)	ASARULE
Apprentice lived back with the printer	DEVIL
A politician takes hours in Rome to find vessels	AMPHORAE
She was nominally inappropriate. Or was she?	MALAPROP
Thoreau's was north of the border	YANKEE
Possibly ornate name of Guttoso	RENATO
Figure of speech — last in the wordbook	ZEUGMA
Esther's devious plotter of regicide	TERESH
Do you mean the unkennelling, untapezing, or the — of the fox?" (The Return from Parnassus)	EARTHING
Earthly paradise visited by Powell, Morris and Tannhaüser	VENUSBERG
Dorsally challenged campanologist	QUASIMODO

Addict who explored murder as a fine art

DEQUINCEY

Choosing to act like Dickens's Blues and Buffs

ELECTING

Concealed, like Garnett's incentives

ULTERIOR

Written by Auden to a godson

EPISTLE

Poll the barber. "With something of the bird in his nature"

PAULSWEEDLEPIPE

Prince of Prophets

ISAIAH