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21a cave reached around mid afternoon 6 ?r?t?o
9d hole in reddish pink material 9 is it corporeal
17a criminal caught on the way to castle 5
Thanks for help

21a GROTTO

21 Grotto

Got to round 'r' middle of afternoon

9 Yes - Pore in Coral

17 C Rook (Chess)

7d - poet a scoundrel has to sting (9)
????b?r?e
19d - beast under cover is not all there (5)
co???

7d SWINBURNE (Swine around Burn (Sting))

19d COAT I(s)

PS Re 19d - I thought it was called a Coati Mundi?Mondi, but the dictionary confirms COATI is fine.

The Skeleton is trickier than ever this week! I got Swinburne the poet sometime ago, but there's one
crossing it that I can't see. 11 Across is:- "Foreign lady Ian described". I can only see this as "LIBYAN" but can't fully parse it. Also, for 17 Across, ("Criminal caught on the way to a castle") I put "CONWY" (CON + WY which is an abbreviation of WAY).
For 28 Across, ("Plant consisting of two leaves") I can only come up with "FAITHLESS" but I can't see it.
Also I haven't solved 5 Down ("A metal weight is present")
and have H--T for this.

17a Looks like C + ROOK (Casle)

Libyan

L(ady) + Ian round/describing By


Host

Ho (Holmium) + st (stone)

28 has foxed most today

Thanks Brendan and Mamya - I thought that maybe I'd be
the only nightowl around and no one else would give a hoot!) (ha, ha) I saw that my CONWY was of no avail and will obviously have to settle for CROOK.
These clues are getting so stretched that I think I'll have to
stick to the other 5 weekenders that I do before I become
"non compos mentis" with this Skeleton!