The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 971 - April 19, 2013

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'. . . kill this lecherous itch with drinking water, / Or live, like a —, on poor-john' Massinger, The Guardian) CARTHUSIAN
'This is the chase' he said 'I am gone for ever' (his pursuer not mentioned in the cast) ANTIGONUS
'Thou art not so much as Bastard — ' (Wycherley, The Plain Dealer) EIGNE
A base paint, perhaps, to rename ANABAPTISE
A native American writer SAROYAN
Burns kids WEANS
Chef begins with cooked rice, as one who could work magic CIRCE
Commander gets public transport for prophet of famine AGABUS
Confused Ephesian wife recalled in an air dangerously evocative ADRIANA
Doré illustrated execution of this king, said to be cruel, apparently a joke AGAG
Essayist shows supplement is viable ADDISON
Fatally drunken Greek, addressed by Pound as 'our Friend' ELPENOR
He felt he could speak English as well as Percy GLENDOWER
He observed the effects of air movement in the salices GRAHAME
Heavyweight poet, displacing seven tons STEVENSON
His traveller was out of luck NASHE
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Imagine an excerpt from Enderby Outside, a tender scene IDEATE
Latin main character from Nicholas Nickleby could produce MANTALINI
Little sparrow with no regrets PIAF
Most of California's capital in solemn pledge SACRAMENT
O'Brian created a mate for him SURGEON
Prolific novelist a long way in advance including first French person FARJEON
Provenance of Murdoch's girl ITALY
Scott's PO EVANS
Scriptural writing wrongly interpreted as trash SHASTRA
Seventh forename featured by Hawthorne SEPTIMUS
Shakespeare's cross-dresser who courted Woolf's transexual? GANYMEDE
Slanderous slave sits there, stirring it up THERSITES
Theatrical byway DRURY
They are invited to a staged performance THEGUESTS
Whose, in fact, was 'Chesterton's nightmare'? SYMES
Xerxes possibly Hausa, not quite sure in the end AHASUERUS