| "Lo in the –– clouds your bleating hills / Rejoice with herbage" (John Dyer, The Fleece) |
SPRINKLING |
| "O wicked ––, through whom I see no bliss" (A Midsummer Night's Dream) |
WALL |
| "With gazing looks, short sighs, unsettled feet / He stood, but turn'd, as ––, to sun" (Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia) |
GIRASOL |
| A key Slav bk. adapted for composer |
KABALEVSKY |
| A poet prepares a précis |
ABRIDGES |
| Colourful outbuilding associated with slaughter |
BARN |
| Diseased elm accused, perhaps, by Peacock |
MELINCOURT |
| Eponymous heroine – later seen as a bloomer |
AMELIA |
| Giant rat created by dramatist |
RATTIGAN |
| Harm done by this author, who is not, however, ruthless |
RENDELL |
| Jolly type on stream in Wheatley series |
ROGERBROOK |
| Lear dies, sadly, involving stars |
SIDEREAL |
| Let in banal reconstruction from Scottish writer |
BALLANTINE |
| London setting, researched in a rush |
KLONDIKE |
