The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 581 - December 10, 2004

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'Passions spin the plot: / We are __ by what is false within' (Meredith, Modern Love) HESPERIDES
'The __ - __ beetle with his drowsy hums' (Macbeth) SHARDBORNE
A minor title SUBHEAD
Back-rhyme, say, for potentate EMIR
Boccaccio's tragic Florentine girl with macabre skill in herb cultivation ISABELLA
Character associated with art by Mrs Inchbald LESSWAYS
Harem I turned inside out to find Dream girl HERMIA
He is to be propitiated by every single feller SILVANUS
He was not depressed by a blue period BETRAYED
Injured sheep transported to the Islands of the Blessed POETASTERS
Issue of Pearl Buck SONS
John Dickson Carr's sort of niche HAGS
Leaders of Lauderdale and Nithsdale gentry identify Scottish poet PICASSO
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Lear knew him well enough, and his name GLOUCESTER
Like Eliot's readers of the Evening Transcript BOSTONIANS
Novelist seen to make haste with gambler's toy RUSHDIE
Operetta maid OK after operation MIKADO
Our chart, reoriented, locates Wycherley's false cleric HARCOURT
Ramsey Street residents not known to Sir Charles Roberts NEIGHBOURS
Repeated undertakings from Neil Simon PROMISES
Reported war diarist EVELYN
School's wish mentioned in Dickensian constituency EATANSWILL
Should that not be fewer means for Bennett's Hilda? HOTELDULAC
Swiss affair? Mush be shum mishtake ROMANSCH
The tale rewritten as Long-Distance Runner, possibly ATHLETE
Versifiers - one accepted writer, and some late bloomers SARUMUSE