The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 780 - March 27, 2009

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"Restore, restore –– to life" (Pope) EURYDICE
"Whom, on the wharf of –– waiting, / Count you to find?" (Housman) LETHE
A mess in Ur? a real mess, for its inhabitants SUMERIANS
A season of Strindberg EASTER
A squadron of ravens spoken of – not an unkindness? SABRE
A stanza with connections to the crown? CHAUCERIAN
Abstract style originates only partly as realist tendency OPART
Alternatives include many middle earth ogres ORCS
An operatic Tom Jones not one of his better gambits PHILIDOR
Ancient Shakespearean sidearm PISTOL
Arab child perhaps as groom for Scott ARCHIBALD
Ardent youth has computer-type memory, ex officio ROMEO
Book in which to get one's bearings ARMORIAL
CIA topics codified in collage PASTICCIO
Clergyman, supported by drinks, depicting rural life PASTORALES
Dramatist in the main gentle INGE
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Foundling in strange passé epic EPPIECASS
He paid dearly for his brother's soup ESAU
He was early preoccupied with a question of upbringing POWELL
Hellish flower, reportedly bonebreaker STYX
Instinctive knowledge from fashionable teaching INTUITION
Its rural parts our lost Elysium, thought Betjeman MIDDLESEX
Mark's wife not so young, they say ISOLDE
Novelist from before Sterne FORESTER
Poet with features of clerical cut, not nice to meet ELIOT
Police capital described by Seán O'Faoláin? PURSE
Pompey supporter makes Cretan seem unreliable MENECRATES
Pope keeps a retro miscellany for musical historian PRAETORIUS
Prelude right in ode, perhaps PROEM
Sandy companion of Hannay ARBUTHNOT
Style Anne adapted in melodramatic novel EASTLYNNE
The point of Herbert's oeuvre SPEAR