The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 783 - April 17, 2009

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"Il n'y a que le premier –– qui coute" (Mme du Deffand) PAS
"On these occasions he ceased to be a human –– whom an 'Oh Clarence!' could quell" (P. G. Wodehouse) DOORMAT
"–– - –– keeps Teacher well in sight" (Walter de la Mare) COPYCAT
A wave of the arms UNDEE
Aida clone unexpectedly produced by Defoe CALEDONIA
Ballantyne's pile of dead fish CORALISLAND
Burns out of kilter AGLEY
Concept anathema to Miss Keeldar's suitor LUDDISM
Dramatic successes, possibly taken to court SMASHHITS
Elliott's fighting man takes money with hesitation SOLDIER
Flower girl unrelated to homophonic polyglot vet ELIZADOOLITTLE
For Bloom, such journeys were all Greek ODYSSEYS
Ground gained where Romans invested ordains change INROADS
He domesticated sorex araneus PETRUCHIO
He married Miss Lee in fear – denial possibly ARDEN
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He was not depressed by a blue period PICASSO
Larkin's seniors, seemingly deluded, and not as diabolical as those of friend Amis THEOLDFOOLS
Ms Sontag not applicable as apocryphal wife SUSANNA
Novelist capable of giving one a lift CRANE
One of Updike's puzzles? PROBLEM
Relaxed with source of Johnson's essays? IDLED
Riches get suit back for Tennyson's eponymous poet LUCRETIUS
Seat of poetry and music in university plays PARNASSUS
Short form suits poetry to a "t" VERSET
Soames as owner AMANOFPROPERTY
Some bold-faced Richard Lionheart type from Scott CEDRIC
Tall man's schooner HESPERUS
Twice a prizewinner for Iris Murdoch SEA
Waggery of breadhead pursuing pence as humorous writer DROLLNESS
Writer's given name misled a lord ROALD