The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 789 - June 5, 2009

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". . . another –– Dame of Quality" (Colley Cibber, The Provok'd Husband) RANTIPOLE
"The very personation of kindness and humanity" SAMUELPICKWICK
"Uninvited, unexpected ––s-in lured off the high road" (Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts) DROPPER
Beasts of burden supported by bad actor in finding Kingsley's adventurer OXENHAM
Collector's item for the duke of Illyria CURIO
Composer from Düsseldorf finally vindicated ORFF
Declare a poet and critic called Herbert AREAD
French composer has honour, though in the cart CAMBERT
French novel at day's end, with whisky, for gypsy gentleman ROMANYRYE
Gay verse: pleasant subject WINE
Get rain with Spain / A dull refrain / Some poets obtain / That's here made plain MONORHYME
I rule up new design for usual haunt PURLIEU
Ibsen staged the people's ENEMY
It included officers and gentlemen SWORDOFHONOUR
Kilo lost by Norse god LOKI
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Lightweight cat, like civet requested by Lear? OUNCE
Messenger's inclination, recorded by Philip MacDonald LIST
Most highly valued as Boyd's idol DEAREST
Note manoeuvre with king from Peacock CROTCHETCASTLE
Nymph in fine choir ECHO
One of Mickey Spillane's profounder works THEDEEP
Pen exited surprisingly, being appropriate EXPEDIENT
Playwright portrays doomed daughter on the water in France FEYDEAU
Props for My Beautiful Laundrette supplied by Tom Stoppard? DIRTYLINEN
Quarry of Jean Auel's hunters MAMMOTH
Rossini's was di Seta, and possibly seen here SCALA
Slang explored by this rice pudding game ERICPARTRIDGE
Superior weight of James FINER
Unlikely-sounding Shakespearean heroine HERO
West's representative AMBASSADOR