The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 620 - October 7, 2005

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'I am as melancholy as a --, or a lugg'd bear' (Henry IV, Part One) GIBCAT
'It's better to be -- than honest' (Tom Stoppard) QUOTABLE
'There are no faces -- than those that are so wash'd' (Much Ado About Nothing) TRUER
A generous, liberal-minded man, according to Dr Johnson BOOKSELLER
Alter ego presented by Milton in Sixteen seventy one SAMSON
Beethoven trio badly received in Sarajevo? ARCHDUKE
Billy, undertaker's clerk addicted to pork pies LIAR
Coxed pair? (to say nothing of the dog) (5,3,2,1,4) THREEMENINABOAT
Darkness to be traversed, before getting public transport? EREBUS
Deceptive bid from Beaumont and Shadwell PSYCHE
Eric Linklater's was of honour ROLL
First man on fish-trap in Stevenson book ADAMWEIR
Go wrong with worker on railway in search for adventure ERRANTRY
Goading for Hodge in early play NEEDLE
His life was enough to shame the devil OFLAHERTY
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Jean starts Rochester's history, yet stops RHYS
Master Shallow also heard them at midnight THECHIMES
Novelist, something of a lawyer by profession YERBY
Oscar's sort of mate IDEAL
Part of joint including New York's poet TENNYSON
Role like Moll Flanders or Fanny Hill NAMEPART
Somehow agree a menu for Bulwer Lytton's schoolmaster EUGENEARAM
Song included by Joyce Oates CAROL
Speaking likeness of Galatea STATUE
Stout fellow (emperor, novelist) NEROWOLFE
That of Richards was practical CRITICISM
The Annales Cambriae are partly a swindle SCAM
Tobias Smelfungus, Doctor of Men and Manners SMOLLETT
Twins in radio's curious item DIOSCURI