| Namesake of Roman fellow, friend of Pistol |
TROCHEE |
| Only 16 can see this buffoon |
HARLEQUIN |
| Outsize chatelain, and a temporary bar to progress |
DESPAIR |
| Painter stays on stage |
CUNEIFORM |
| Physicist's tobacco? |
LORCA |
| Pity Fanny Kemble's further ones cannot be played |
RECLUSE |
| Poets' bird is peaceful and calm |
HAVENOT |
| Robert Herrick work that's trash? |
GONER |
| Scary aunt somehow set straight by Edith Wharton |
COLUMBINE |
| Snow job, intended to obfuscate |
DEATH |
| Subject of Wordsworth in retirement |
ANASTASIA |
| The cradle rocks above one, said Nabokov |
ABYSS |
| Thin end of the wedge in Middle Eastern writing? |
HALCYON |
| Try a little Hazlitt |
ATHENAEUM |
| Underprivileged type entitled by Hemingway |
RECORDS |