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1. One killed from time to time 'pour encourager les autres' Ans Admiral
2. Russia's central form of transport Ans Steamship
3. An Iberian Joe Miller? Spanish chestnut
4. Motel gives an example of Humpty Dumpty's philological baggage Ans Portmanteau
5. Wine most pleasing to palate in test Ans Asti

1 is a direct translation from Candide by Voltaire, when our hero witnesses the execution of a Britis admiral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng

SS (steamship) is in the centre of ruSSia
motel is a "pormanteau word" from "motor hotel". I think the Humpty Dumpty refrence is to one of the Alice books

I found this for 3 - I didn't know it

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/joe--miller

From Wikipedia:

The word "portmanteau" was first used in this context by Lewis Carroll in the book Through the Looking-Glass (1871),[10] in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky,[11] where "slithy" means "lithe and slimy" and "mimsy" is "flimsy and miserable." Humpty Dumpty explains the practice of combining words in various ways by telling Alice:

You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.

5 Most pleasing is Tastiest, remove 'test' - Asti, wine,

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