The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 498 - March 14, 2003

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'All men would be - if they durst.' (Rochester) COWARDS
'I'm - of Love; I'm stilll more - of rhyme. / But money gives me pleasure all the time' (Hillaire Belloc) TIRED
(and 1 across) Rather cynical writer suggesting we should give him a buzz? RING
A little fiction NOVELETTE
A near miss, like Fleur Adcock's harbour INNER
Amsterdam novelist who offered enduring love MCEWAN
Born in Brooklyn, his family was Swiss PERELMAN
Breath suitable to accompany whispering humbleness, Shylock suggests BATED
Cade's alibi broken in Otway piece ALCIBIADES
Composer from Sacramento sticks to drawing-room songs TOSTI
Decapitated dream-god as bereaved poet ORPHEUS
English Geller spied disguised as dramatist EURIPIDES
Evidently an idea worth repeating LEITMOTIF
Exaggerate an Antonioni success BLOWUP
Female predator reportedly sadly drowned LYONNESSE
Fielding's eponymous parson ADAMS
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Hardy line of rulers DYNASTS
It takes ages to sum up Renaissance scholar ERASMUS
Jones's neighbour who deals with the animals FREDERICK
Neat play created by Shaw when broke at the seaside? ONTHEROCKS
Novel church one dreamt about NOTREDAME
Office held in Wrexhill by Trollope character VICAR
Quiet cup-bearer as Titaness PHEBE
Sculptor makes record on 8 EPSTEIN
Seat of mysteries uses lie indiscriminately ELEUSIS
See 4 down LARDNER
Singer, a maiden loved by Zeus, is merchant's friend BASSANIO
Slender hopes were sustained by a suitor of this Miss Page ANNE
Story somehow pieced together from tavern air NARRATIVE
The Lionheart's troubador's rhyme, provided for short, formalized poems RONDELS
This experimental writer is taken for a mug STEIN
Variety of pear favoured by Theophilus Grantly? THEWARDEN