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• Courageous flag-captain
• Writer relatively able to endure exposure
• Comic actor and writer's tough, tough year
• Comic mouths off about religious subject
• Robust and strong
• Terrible one could give us zero mirth
• Author of 'Far from the Madding Crowd'
• 16 novelist
• A comic gets buzzing first, being without alternative
• Rugged; author
• Courageous novelist
• Will he hesitate or first will he tell jokes?
• Tough dry grass covering the borders of Richmond
• Oliver Thomas is tough
• Resolute author