The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 812 - December 4, 2009

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"The crooked –– - ––s / Grey with their fleecy moss and misseltoe" (Southey, Madoc) APPLETREE
"When I mount the –– chair / Wha will sit beside me there?" (Burns, The Rantin' Dog) CREEPIE
Ass Clio prepared for informal gatherings SOCIALS
Comfort offered it with the wedding. Possibly of the shotgun variety? HASTE
Deity in new record melody NEPTUNE
Disadvantage of amusing song CATCH
Ferlinghetti's life ENDLESS
French life in credit instrument CLAVIER
French novelist is bad actor in single combat DUHAMEL
Hall Caine's city – 21, perhaps? ETERNAL
Herbert's saintly stalemate HOLYDEADLOCK
It is sharp in one composer TARTINI
Key characters in Lear, the Scottish play, and a Russian play THREESISTERS
Languages found in Joe Lampton guest book? TONGUES
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Mann produced man from here: an eminent Stewart LARAMIE
Peaks attained by Amy Fox HEIGHTS
Retain the ambition in Bradford work HOLDTHEDREAM
Scary book as treatment for backache? SPINECHILLER
Scottish king becomes Hitler for Huddersfield MALCOLM
Second OT book in Greek island SAMOS
Some comic rondos from Greek composition OMICRON
Son of king of of Scotland, and Albion, perhaps DONALBAIN
Spire dormer might be unclear LUCARNE
Swordsman uses pointed weapon (silver, new article) DARTAGNAN
Talent in O'Hara's set-piece stories ASSET
Thackeray character in two writers PENDENNIS
Underwater flower? (associated with crustacean) ANEMONE
Valentino, king of Ruritania, we hear RUDOLPH