| 'Bonnet and back bore battered -- places' (Evelyn Waugh, Scoop) |
LEARNER |
| A major character (with royal connections?) of Cooper |
HUMBERT |
| A president mistakenly offers sadly pedestrian quibbles |
TRIOLET |
| A seventeen like Cadfael |
RELATIVE |
| A teacher of Rabelais and Shakespeare, full of eight |
HOLOFERNES |
| Against a book, I see |
ANTI |
| Associated by Shelley with friend of Paris |
FEARISTHEKEY |
| Blackmore hero to free daughter within |
RIDD |
| Cease, yet press on, wrote Innes |
STOP |
| Charitable offering for devotional songs, written without afterthought |
BROTHER |
| Chief seventeenth-century fiction writer |
HEAD |
| Cosy place (alternative provided) for Greek commander |
NESTOR |
| David's traitorous counsellor, finally suspended |
ACHITOPHEL |
| French eight-line poem (threesome allowed) |
EXILES |
