The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 766 - December 5, 2008

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'...take care of your -- , for if ever you are made fast to her poop... she'll make every beam in her body crack!' (Smollett, Peregrine Pickle) UPPERWORKS
'Hie thee to hell for shame and leave this world / Thou --' (King Richard III) CACOCEMON
'I'd sooner be robbed by a tall man who showed me a bit of steel / Than be fleeced by a sneaking --' (Sir Alfred Lyall, The Old Pindaree) BABOO
'Methinks our best wisdom lies in the -- ' (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Leila) SWORDARM
Blair alternatively fit ORWELL
Cleaner character from Vonnegut? HOOVER
Doctrinal work might offer us art SUTRA
Donna showing skill in race TARTT
Ganymede 'lodged' in Shakespeare's memory ROSALYNDE
Hesse is at pains to show sensitivity AESTHESIS
Hesse's ruined maiden CANAAN
His musical achievement was incidental, a sort of landslide ADDINSELL
Job's counsellor in a novel I humbly quote ELIHU
Laurentian flute symbolically broken AARONSROD
Married woman, superb that is, as bishop's lady MRSPROUDIE
Mary Renault's edict from the sea? BULL
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Noah myth was all Greek to him DEUCALION
Occasional word new at one time NONCE
On Monday, a model friend to louche genius SARA
Playwright as graduate's vocalist MASSINGER
Possibly ancient as a Biblical race CANAANITES
Prince seeks alternatives in Ring hoard IGOR
Professor Rodney Whitaker's permit on the Eiger SANCTION
Pyncheon coveted his home - and gave it a multifaceted roof MAULE
Relative of Dickens's surgeon is an untidy woman SLAMMERKIN
Repository for Elia's poems ALBUM
Science fiction writer islanded in New York STATEN
Start of century to fuel up inspiration for historians CLIO
The Master Builder, so to speak, of detective fiction NASON
Uses words out of place - so heard to drop out for a while MISTERMS
Waugh's arctophile SEBASTIAN
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