Possible Clues:

• All the letters of Plath Bea devoured
• The Arabic one begins 'alif, ba, ta . . .'
• Character set to move a table outside pub
• Top dog to back for all the characters
• What begins with a beat, pal improvising around Beethoven's Fifth
• A-Z map briefly reviewed before stay in Derby?
• Group of characters
• Keeping record, heads of Austria and Hungary make good spellers?
• These characters in Bath are strangely pale
• Literary set in a punt on river in opium dream