| His wife was liable to be choked off |
OURMUTUALFRIEND |
| Mailer at pains to get subject matter |
CHAUCERIAN |
| Paintings as stock market sector? |
OILS |
| Picture railway in poetic description |
IMAGERY |
| Restore theatrical company, currently broadcasting |
COBWEB |
| Someone we both know in a Victorian novel |
YESTREEN |
| Spinner, perhaps, protects daughter by making textual changes |
BOWDLER |
| The second Mrs Rochester |
MATERIAL |
| They are in the hand of God, Solomon tells us, apocryphally |
RIGHTEOUS |
| Title narcotics from Sylvester and Caldwell |
TOBACCOS |
| Valued at zero - still made speech |
ORATED |
| Witty, like Thackeray's snobbish author |
WAGGISH |
| Writer (a jewel) has a degree in card-play |
BERYLBAINBRIDGE |