The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 824 - March 12, 2010

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'The -- , annually created as the judges of law and equity' (Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) PRAETORS
'The Pawnees and the --s were neighbouring but hostile nations' (W. G. Simms, Southward Ho!) OMAHA
'Think how poor thou wast, how -- ; /Whom a small lump of flesh could poison thus' (John Donne, Of the Progress of the Soul) OBNOXIOUS
5A's source of building materials BRICKFIELD
All-Italian mass performance TUTTI
American reportedly with zero intelligence in fact award-winning dramatist YANKOWITZ
Base knight who lost his garter FASTOLFE
Composer of excerpt from the Iliad (Overture and Variations) LIADOV
Craig Thomas made such a decision EMERALD
Critic despised by Voltaire, from the Société du Coffre Rond FRERON
Defence put up by painting on inclination RAMPART
Direction taken by Saint Exupéry's mail SOUTH
Distinctive nature Huxley associated with anthropoid ESSENCE
Dutch exponent of the flute LEOPOLD
Exalted description of Liszt piece RHAPSODIC
Masters' runners, perhaps BENGALESE
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Native Americans, like the one McMurtry landed on the moon COMANCHES
Naval writer made a martyr MARRYAT
Novelist usually follows old record HARTLEY
Old seaman (one of five) identifies Roman king TARQUIN
Positive affirmations of Irish Penelope YESES
Raised its New Order, and made a mockery SATIRISED
Renegade classical pianist whose jazz is associated with art TATUM
Serpentine poet, from centre to North MIDDLETON
Spirits that may have a soul of their own, thought Paracelsus UNDINES
Tale with a moral, or part of a blessing FABLE
The genius of Hubert Selby DEMON
The girl from Chicago ROXIE
Toadlike old driver JEHU
Weight of Hardy NCO TROY
Well brought-up, like Brian Aldiss's lad HANDREARED
Zen ethics rewritten by philosopher NIETZSCHE