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LONGSINCE"He play'd an ancient ditty ____ mute, / In Provence call'd, ‘La belle dame sans merci'" (Keats)
ERROLHe playd Robin
SHOWSON'04 Incubus hit "Talk ___ Mute"
BAGDitty ___ (3)
WAHWAHOnomatopoeic word for the sound created by moving a mute in and out of a cornet or trumpet's bell; or, a pedal for imitating said effect with an electric guitar (3-3)
DAMPERMute in music (6)
MUTINEERFletcher Christian, for example, was mute in ear report (8)
GAULTREEIn 4.1, the Archbishop of York asks, "What is this forest call'd?" What is it called?
BARBARYIn 4.3, Othello dispatches Desdemona to her room. Desdemona says she will sing a song of "willow," which she explains the origins of thus: "My mother had a maid call'd ___... And she died singing it."
NAMES"call'd him soft ___" (Keats)
LABELLEDCharacterised in La Belle Dame Sans Merci (8)
KEATSJohn -; poet who wrote a number of odes and the ballad La Belle Dame Sans Merci (5)
WILD"She took me to her elfin grot, And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, And there I shut her - - eyes With kisses four." Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (4)
MERCIKeats's "La Belle Dame Sans ___"
DAMEKeats's "La Belle ___ Sans Merci"
EMOTIONAL“‘Humour’, he said, ‘is ____ chaos remembered in tranquility’” (James Thurber)
AMATEURS"Often the ‘experts' make the worst possible ministers in their own fields. In this country we prefer rule by ____." (Clement Attlee)
TUROWSHADE"Grisham's a hack! He'll never write a book as good as ‘Presumed Innocent'!" e.g.?
INOFFENSIVE"A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an ____ political cartoon look like?"" (Salman Rushdie)
ORGANISEDCRIMEMerci, la Mafia! (9,5)