The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 986 - August 2, 2013

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'He minds you somewhat of a —, balancing a long staff on his chin' (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) JUGGLER
'Sometimes a — is just a —' (Sigmund Freud, attrib.) CIGAR
'There are a dozen occasions on which a — character will satisfy him well enough' (Virginia Woolf, Common Reader) REACHMEDOWN
'Vastness! and Age! and Memories of —!' ( Edgar Allan Poe) ELD
Antony, Cleopatra and 25 met it. But not in Christie version DEATHONTHENILE
Associated with the manor by Harriet Martineau EYRIE
Coming before Shakespeare for Black JUDITH
Conceived as flower-seller by G.B.S. GALATEA
Creeper associated with Stevie by Dick? IVY
Danish bit-player, now deceased ROSENCRANTZ
Design of Maya lace reveals shrub MACLEAYA
Diversely reorganized patron of Jim Hawkins DRLIVESEY
Edwardian liberal prepared for Marryat protagonist MASTERMANREADY
Facility with some German characters? RUNECRAFT
First male Jarrow scholar was a carpenter ADAMBEDE
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Fundamental sort of spin proposed by Ivor Richards? BASIC
His best known work showed a lot of spirit MACKENZIE
Ivy Compton Burnett implied he should be better ELDER
Katherine of France didn't know her bilbow from it ELBOW
Location of chancel familiar to Hawksmoor EASTEND
Miltonian shopping precincts? ARCADES
No score at tennis from Bennett? LOVEMATCH
Not necessarily readable LEGIBLE
Pink-and-white heroine of Victorian fairy story ROSALBA
Repentant Roman deserter who suffered 17 ENOBARBUS
Sort of pole position held by H. Allen Smith was low TOTEM
Spenserian adverb, confusing to he-man NATHEMO
Stout fellow NEROWOLFE
Sydney Carton saved one ARISTO
Wolf is oriental and forbidding ISEGRIM