The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 911 - January 27, 2012

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'To create something exceptional, your ---- must be relentlessly focussed in the smallest detail' (Giorgio Armani) MINDSET
A bird myth rewritten in rapturous choral hymn DITHYRAMB
A brother of 1 Ac. ELDER
Artist and munitions manufacturer produced dramatic results JOHNFLETCHER
Bulwer -- -- Strachey, literary men LYTTON
Causley's seamen to offer hornpipe? HANDS
Cleopatra's champion in part an archery instructor ASCHAM
Danish queen who drank too much GERTRUDE
Enigma not sorted out for essayist MONTAIGNE
Essayist coolly concealing names CONNOLLY
Faithful theme of 1Ac. LOYALSUBJECT
He did harvest poems SANDBURG
Household name from Chaucer GEOFFREY
I call about five to reach actor-manager IRVING
It is therefore in Cartesian observation ERGO
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It runs softly yet drowns the Past, Thomas thought STREAM
Keats found December this nighted DREAR
Levy, though not on poet Amy TITHE
Missing link gets time with American version of churlish Athenian philosopher APEMANTUS
Murderess who married an angel TESS
Nearest a sort of dramatic cantata SERENATA
Publishes results ISSUES
Self-confessed cut of Eliot's features CLERICAL
Some leading lights of Terence Rattigan FLAREPATH
The French on park seat at start of the year find humorous writer BENCHLEY
Those of 21 Grigson sound absurd ISLES
Welsh character (as Scottish psycho) BEGBIE
Where Hughes got the wind up JAMAICA
Wilkie Collins made him count FOSCO
Words sung bring it back to Free French model LIBRETTI