The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 517 - August 8, 2003

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'...his - finesse was such, /So nice his ear, so delicate his touch'(Cowper) MUSICAL
A best laid scheme of Steinbeck OFMICEANDMEN
Chabrol does LESBICHES
Charles Churchill and George Crabbe each provided one of these aspirants CANDIDATES
Contributed with over-the-top content in formal dance GAVOTTE
Did he recommend transportation for his son? Phaetons, perhaps? STANHOPE
Douglas Reeman's exterminators from twenty four DESTROYERS
Duo expires horribly in Greek tragedy OEDIPUSREX
Faithful wife, vivacious too, and provider of Perfect Happiness, two words, the second is sixteen across PENELOPE
Gentleman holding bet is like a vision of afterlife DANTEAN
His arrival and departure were booked in 1943 KOESTLER
His tailor was stitched up again CARLYLE
Honourable incitor of Les Six HONEGGER
Icarus-type from Susan Howatch ? One of those Rich who are Different, seeking Ultimate Prizes ? HIGHFLYER
It is enough, thought Frank Sargeson ONCE
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Italian novelist is something of a volatile visionary LEVI
John Buchan, for example, starts some Caledonian opus tentatively SCOT
Mother of Joe Egg gets German greeting in South Africa SHEILA
Nabokov's was in the dark CAMERA
Now it is a reworking of Conrad's Heart of Darkness APOCALYPSE
Poet gets stimulus, say, with foolin' about PHILIPLARKIN
Ray Bradbury set his work very high on this scale EALE
See 15 LIVELY
She died of her mistress's kiss IRAS
Skaters' objective in A Midsummer Night's Dream NAVY
Tactful diversions of Roger Peyrefitte PUCK
Vigour attributed to slaves by Leonard Cohen ENERGY
Vitriol from a Corneille nobleman ACID
Wickedness in surreal excerpt from Hamlets DIPLOMATIC