The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 588 - February 4, 2005

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'... in a wood of -- they bay'd the bear - With hounds of Sparta' (A Midsummer Night's Dream) ANTIOCH
'A bore is simply a nonentity who -- his humble lot in life' (H. L. Mencken) ANSON
... and Clare Boylan describes the last ones RESORTS
Alcove in scenic Heart of Midlothian NICHE
Alexandria Quartet, e.g., try legato unsuccessfully YEATS
An Eliot, perhaps, may produce such joy CORINTH
Ancient city opposed to ring at church DONKEYSYEARS
Bad scene with a new ending in declamatory style TENORCLEF
Barbarians on long voyage surrounding circumnavigator ELATION
Carefully composed jokes SCHERZI
Closing Time - time to hear more of this anti-heroic Joseph Heller survivor TETRALOGY
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Hopkins's morning's minion OVERSEA
Inn door might make small movement RONDINO
Irish novelist's householder with presidential connections ... CHELSEA
Its citizens were preached to by the converted CARLSANDBURG
Its cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold HONEYANDSALT
Orphean nature of Lake Poets' ballads RESENTS
Poet-playwright as light novelist, say KESTREL
Sir Charles Roberts girl seen with boy, reportedly BARBARA
Trial acts rewritten for composer SCARLATTI
Turkey's entry, in the end, enthusiastically supported by him APHETIC
With vowel omitted, you can make it cheap YOSSARIAN