The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 895 - September 23, 2011

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"The sixth-form boy ... has spread his force ... behind the —" (Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays) GOALPOSTS
... and there initially he got directions! ATHENS
A Mozart hero is a devotee of Venus ADONIS
Any ruler can get confused about one period described by Meton LUNARYEAR
Bantu to run out second after he has heartless race HEREROS
Bit of corpse to notice – Agatha's denouement's extremely detailed CADAVER
Deaths coming about as curses start to eventuate SURCEASES
Desperately resist Dreiser's Carrie SISTER
During Floréal I stick to what's achievable REALISTIC
Fates about to be involved in dastardly rape PARCAE
Fish without a vessel in Rhys's sea SARGASSO
I'd not so much of Edmund's initial dolce far niente IDLESSE
In red novel includes revolutionary that's decorated ENRICHED
Like a bad apple, or Coe's clubmen? ROTTENTOTHECORE
Like Achaean youth, he gets to start of battle in Iliad, say EPHEBIC
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Material for Praxiteles – chap working in silvery-white metal symbolically MARBLE
Michael Hofmann's makes one cry and moan miserably ACRIMONY
O'Casey's cup, from which one sates drunkenly? TASSIE
One like Flashman, impetuous, grabbed by the head of Rugby THRASHER
One like Praxiteles in part is temperamental ARTIST
Priam's lost last bit of kingdom in conflict – because of him? PARIS
Public music company returning extra pay OVERTIME
Rulers of 6Ac, possibly, including part of Rhion and outskirts of Corinth ETHNARCHS
Take in misfit, like Praxiteles GREEK
The Spanish going to and fro about Gibraltar after independence is on the cards ELIGIBLE
There's worse poetry in short promotion, right? ADVERSER
Unfinished scroll put on carelessly by Praxiteles, say ... SCULPTOR
Where to find Milton's Zophiel, last of cherubim I defy, we hear MIDAIR
Work of Praxiteles, badly atrophied APHRODITE