The Times - Specialist - Times Literary Supplement 952 - November 30, 2012

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' . . . a long dark back-belted coat of a cheap shaggy material much affected by priests and young —s' (Mary McCarthy, Groves of Academe) EXISTENTIALIST
'Hers was an alert, vigorous mind, bright and strong like a steel trap' said Wodehouse of this Lady Caroline BYNG
A small piece of soap EPISODE
A tenacious sounding emperor's son-in-law AGRIPPA
A word from Spenser, off the top of his head NOULE
Articles holding underwear, in an Iranian language AVESTAN
Backer on footpath for 30s 'Realist novel' ANGELPAVEMENT
Banks suggested exchange was equitable FAIR
Chart said to reveal Benson's 'first lady of Tilling' MAPP
Create mots tortuously from long lines OCTAMETERS
Deterioration of Restoration architect, his virtue in danger RELAPSE
Disfigured male dares to reveal falsely accused witch ESMERALDA
Dramatist's Lady of the Lake apparently had one who18 her WINDERMERE
Encyclopaedist includes publicity for widely-read fiction writer MEADE
For whom Julia Kavanagh took the wrong road DORA
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Generous lady of Farquahar? BOUNTIFUL
Hopkins farrier no relation to 1D FELIX
Listening to an excerpt from Tennyson's Maud, I entirely lost track of time AUDIENT
Mare did mad ride unfortunately, to see what Crichton was on stage ADMIRED
One drink on airline results in dance RUMBA
Philanthropic educationalist's farm girl, 'plucky at two and dauntless at five' REBECCARANDALL
Producers of primaries, perhaps IMPRESARI
Smollett character with crop described in Hilton RANDOMHARVEST
The best part of Cabell's joke CREAM
The echo of his 1844 American verse still audible HOFFMAN
There are two in Wodehouse's Jeeves in the Offing; and one in Uncle Fred in the Springtime EFFS
This sort of offering from the Grossmiths concerned nobody DIARIAL
Updike's Poles TELEPHONE
Warner's witch starts with money LOLLY
Work taken as major if accompanied by a magnum OPUS