The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 961 - February 8, 2013

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'Beneath us, like an —'s pendent nest' (Longfellow, The Belfry of Bruges) ORIOLE
'Speak fair words, — — be mute' (Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis) ORELSE
A Miss Pecksniff of unstrained quality, no doubt MERCY
Bemelmans heroine almost triggering Proustian recall MADELINE
Cognomen of HCE, the flatterer EARWIG
Consumed after bad translation of Dante, it may occur earlier ANTEDATE
Disraeli has him form government, with career well-documented by Keats ENDYMION
Dr Lake, the fallen angel MOLOCH
Eucharistic offering, unique to albino? OBLATION
Exist in alternative – one of de Boys OLIVER
Fiction in early play, possibly partly Shakespeare, and wholly Poquelin MOLIERE
Harp on it, it's instrumental of a god AEOLIAN
Hazlitt mistrusted the most plausible ones REASONERS
Immature, as Eban, page to Keats's Emperor Elfinan UNDERAGE
Is cut evil, perhaps, in old law book? LEVITICUS
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Like dialogue in a satire, or discussion style of Socrates IRONIC
Madame de, de — de Vilmorin LOUISE
Miner's daughter, they say, abandoned on Greek island ARIADNE
Morgan's lame journeyman ELLIOT
Mythical giant satellite TITAN
One of whom bachelor boy makes a lot of aimless fuss BEATRICE
Provided a source of rich gaeity THEBEGGARSOPERA
Shaw's maid SAINTJOAN
She was closely connected with the fall of Rome ANTONINA
So teasing conflict (internal) of Sweeney AGONISTES
Somehow the last letter in Kafka's Amerika book was significant to him MARIOPUZO
Synod in Istanbul included votary of war-god ODINIST
This Lord of the Elements aroused by a bellow we hear HENDERSON
Tobias Smelfungus, Doctor of Men and Manners SMOLLETT