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Having trouble parsing these, help appreciated....

11a God! Writer has lost one lot of gold (4) - THOR (God)

I thought it might be 'Writer' = THOREAU minus 'Gold' = AU but that leaves an E so I think I've gone wrong somewhere.

8d Size of boarding house at first obscured by dark (9) - DIMENSION (Size)

27a Prepare to sleep in wooden seat (6) - SETTEE/SETTLE ?

1a: author = writer
au and or both = gold

11 (AU)THor

Deleting first gold not the second (OR)

8 Dim replaces 'P' in Pension - boarding house

27 Settle , double definition

27a: settle - double definition

Brilliant, thanks Elle, thanks Mamya.

Glad to help, Brendan!

Hi Elle, I thought this one was quite tricky, not helped by over thinking the Author/Thoreau clue and not knowing the 'Seat' definition of SETTLE or the 'Boarding house' definition of PENSION!

Hi, Brendan!
"pension" is the French for "boarding house".
I don't think we use the word in English?