The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 492 - January 31, 2003

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'A glory round his furrow'd head, / Which -d then' (Byron) EMANATE
'Where would the - be without someone to be - at?' (Elizabeth Bowen) IRISH
Aphra Benn's sea-dog? ROVER
Bedraggled, but not necessarily like the biographer of Palmerston TROLLOPED
By which Richard Patrick Russ acquired a new persona DEEDPOLL
Character of boys clothed all in green? LILYWHITE
Copies of Johnson's work for the unemployed? IDLERS
Defoe's fortunate mistress ROXANA
Dragon killer, later a dodgy vet TRISTAN
Dramatist drops apt twist STOPPARD
Eponymous Dennis character with poor sense of direction? INVADER
Eponymous Doyle character misled no girl LORING
Flower girl unrelated to homophonic polyglot vet ELIZADOOLITTLE
Garden features? Yes, for Italian composer PERGOLESI
Greed of Eros? CUPIDITY
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He was successfully on the fiddle in Cremona AMATI
Language displaying thin end of the wedge HITTITE
Marston's duchess of 'ravenous immodesty' AURELIA
Miss Dell in a position to see the light ETHEL
Opera quite usual if supported by student NORMA
Pursued, say, like Jane Eyre? CHASTE
Reference by D. Thomas to H.H. Brackenridge? FERNHILL
Row following a boy in Persian story ALADDIN
Seen in advance, and quietly assessed PREVIEWED
Spring nymph ARETHUSA
Talk about profit in good book OBADIAH
Treacherous hairdresser with philistine views DELILAH
Ultimately exorbitant assistant to damned ambitious doctor MEPHISTOPHELES
Virginia Woolf gave him room FLANDERS
W.H. Davies was a super one TRAMP