The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 935 - July 20, 2012

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'He . . . running into the house, exposed his back and — to the whole family' (Smollett, Humphrey Clinker) SCONCE
'Politic, cautious, and meticulous; / Full of high —, but a bit obtuse.' (T. S. Eliot) SENTENCE
Adams heroine gets these wrong, right afterwards ESTHER
Additional charges for very minor characters EXTRAS
African Queen achieved nothing DIDO
Blake's night flier INVISIBLE
Boorish cavalry officer from Victorian fiction, said to be from Northern Ireland DERRIMAN
Duke of Anjou to rule (that is, king) REIGNIER
Freeman portrayed its highway HEART
Hardy farmer James, always with strange need EVERDENE
He got icon wrong in rationalist building style NEOGOTHIC
Her garden sounded relevant ELIZABETH
His head of state was barely visible ANDERSEN
Humour of Burton MELANCHOLY
Itinerant preacher as murderee in Sandbourne ALECDURBERVILLE
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Jean Plaidy's was victorious VICTORIA
Lean Trollopean chaplain SLOPE
Orsino would have had it of music EXCESS
Paul Theroux saw more than fifty happy ones paddling the Pacific ISLES
Poet misled Wilde, say DAYLEWIS
Political economy is such a science, thought Carlyle DISMAL
Poor verse, or libretti for bad operettas, at the end of the day POETASTERY
Seen in church, but said to be opposed to singing ANTECHOIR
Singers perceived – the scheme of this verse, is easy to see, and that may well be for better or worse ABBA
Some chablis, then chardonnay, for Dorset mayor HENCHARD
Sort of stuff offered by Hay and Wolfe RIGHT
Steward well-known by Edgar for what he was OSWALD
Strauss's old lecher said to be bovine OCHS
The Raven, from Dickens GRIP