| 'And as an ev'ning dragon came, / Assailant on the perched -' (Milton) |
ROOSTS |
| 'Those that beget tales, tempests, and such-like -' (Ben Jonson) |
DROLLERIES |
| A mountain of university plays |
PARNASSUS |
| All in report of Plato talking |
TOTAL |
| All-American boy swore at my changed characters |
TOMSAWYER |
| Ancient codifier of law as Beckett's blind man at old city (a bit short) |
HAMMURABI |
| Capital ring given by impulsive Veronese teenager |
ROMEO |
| Cartoon knave of Ian Rankin? |
STRIP |
| Cleopatra's final solution, like afterthought |
ASPS |
| Compton Mackenzie had it on the brain |
WATER |
| Concoct ethereal concert, including singing group |
OCTET |
| Destroyers launched by Stevenson and Bellow |
WREOKERS |
| Everyone, for example, seeing Tarka coming back rather quickly |
ALLEGRETTO |
| Examination accompanied by convulsions in Elkin's short fiction |
SEARCHES |
| Formal start of declaration by American writer to English expatriate one |
ISHERWOOD |
| Forster recorded her delight |
DAME |
