Related Clues:

• Novel from English author not finishing this publication
• Novel set in outskirts of Halifax, briefly
• Toughened by work with social relevance
• What people formally stand on when observing one
• King visiting entertained by book
• Company and City embracing reverse of simple formality
• Formal service
• This dream conjured up in a novel
• Mercy one dispensed in a religious event?
• Novel had to contain right dates
• Starts 12 across with an ordeal in ship presumably over the early birds
• Fooled by absorbing Resistance story
• Things painted in the spring
• Event of ritual significance
• Formal rite