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17a wife managed to get around Falstaff's fellow-drinker, a beast, --r-h-l

9d makes absolutely permanent sites, ne'er to be redeveloped, e-e---s-s

15a poet with almost unblemished start in Latin, V-----

(getting there, slowly!)

Narwhal
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Virgil

17a NARWHAL NAR (RAN backwards for managed) W for wife and HAL for Falstaff

9d ETERNISES, anagram of SITES NE'ER

9d Eternises.....anagram"sites neer"

Thanks Jill, Evac and Gwladys. Should have got Virgil but who on earth is Narwhal? S'pose I'd better go and look him up. He might be important.