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typo. 8 should read I

OK, the Italian novelist is Eco.
and at home is "in drum" (cockney slang)

I just checked cockney rhyming slang website which shows
"Drum and Bass = place"
so
in drum = at home

Glad to see you`re back Mondrian ! (Now that`s a sentence which would have been insulting if I`d made the common mistake and written `your` ! ) Mags.

Thanks jazzgirl and magworth. WHAT a complicated clue and I dont k ow much of cockney slang so I would never have worked that out. MAybe I would have got the Italian novelist eve tually.. Have you got a nice dayin the south? It is warm here unlike yesterday.

Today is a mixture of sunshine and heavy showers. Definitely no gardening :)

Thanks Chrisg. I might have got it for myself If I had not got a mistake in 14dn!

Belated thanks chrisg, haven't replied sooner, computer kaput.! STILL puzzling over 19d despite your hints. I have ?e?n?...am I correct.?
R...:(..

No - Your 'e' is wrong.

Think of a word meaning 'to fashion' then follow the wordplay to alter a letter.

Hi all (especially mondrian - look forward to hearing from you more often!)
RT turned up today, TWO days late - Bank Holiday can't explain that!
I've finished, but not quite sure of the parsing of one.

10a Forbidding expression, minus one (4)

I have a word for "forbidding" that might be applied to a facial expression, , but I don't see the "minus one" bit. (I might not have the right answer.)