The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 821 - February 19, 2010

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' --, ' said Pnin, lifting two fingers, 'has expressed everything about mermaids in only two poems' (Vladimir Nabokov) LERMONTOV
'In her the -- of all heavenly grace / In chiefe degree are heaped up on hye' (Spenser, The Faerie Queene) RICHESSE
'This time he would not bid me enter/ The exhausted air-bell of -- --' (Browning, Christmas-Eve) THECRITIC
American writer posted publicity MAILER
Apt to be sighted, say, like a loud dust jacket? QUOTABLE
Architect sells heath? HAWKSMOOR
Betsy Trotwood would have preferred David to be a great one NIECE
Boy proceeding by degrees with a shrub ERICA
Burden shouldered by Aeneas ANCHISES
Herbert found it insufficient PITY
His legs dramatically revealed in 1736 MARIVAUX
His wife refused to turn over a page OBERON
How to soothe a dog sent to Coventry? PATMORE
Infantile poet with cavalier attitude? SUCKLING
Island folklorist HARRIS
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It was on the cards for Dennis IDENTITY
Level bet on directions taken by First Lady EVENS
Moore heroine associated with Bath healer ESTHER
Muir's landed property of verse ESTATE
Odd as Garfield's affair of Adelaide 8 STRANGE
One happening to be associated with wisdoms by Donald Davie EVENT
One of R. D. Laing's sandpipers? KNOT
Playwright made the arrows, perhaps, but not the slings FLETCHER
Poet given to concealing love TASSO
Proprietors of Churchill play OWNERS
Rare poet identified with every man BENJONSON
Some persistent urge, never quite followed, to be a novelist TURGENEV
Some unusual clothes seen on German poet HESSE
Unfinished shroud from 28 PENELOPESWEB
University Wit who spared a groat's worth ROBERTGREENE