The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 797 - July 31, 2009

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"Like ––, that proves bad or good / According as 'tis understood" (Butler, Hudibras) MUSICK
"Oh what made fatuous –– toil / To break earth's sleep at all?" (Wilfred Owen, "Futility") SUNBEAMS
"The cold, unbelieving eye of Englishmen, expectant of –– in manners" (Hawthorne, Dr Grimshawe's Secret) SOLECISMS
A small quantity of what mother holds is like an elaborate lyric MODICUM
American don as novelist DELILLO
An experiment by David Foster EMPATHY
Attractive nymph SIREN
Drake's prize for a hothead CACAFUEGO
First class key to the French symbol CCLEF
French dramatist rent Ibsen adaptation BERNSTEIN
Galahad's dangerous seat SIEGE
Hard French hospital room for destroyer of the Wild Boar of the Ardennes DURWARD
He's trying short work with hesitation ESSAYER
Language for a snark if a translation is needed AFRIKAANS
Long periods of travel in the Indies – in a veritable Eden DECADES
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Much of it is by Shakespeare ADO
Poet gets directions correctly ENRIGHT
Porter's kid CISCO
Readership, of what Hannibal is said to have consumed? LECTORATE
Show contempt for Pluto DIS
Shylock more confident at University USURER
Skeleton in Maugham's cupboard provides some light refreshment CAKESANDALE
Some hope from Dennis Brutus STUBBORN
Statuary stone hewn from basalt era ALABASTER
Superior guesswork may reveal keyboard instrument in Paris church ORGUE
Surely not more Spenser ... NATHEMO
Surgeon's report of staff with Eric, the king, and haphazard following RODERICKRANDOM
The old-fashioned stuff is ecofriendly in Williams work THECORNISGREEN
Unfortunate union in Shaw play MISALLIANCE
Wells character goes nap, with afterthought KIPPS