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We now think "Echo a way" can be read EAST, and this refers to the EC (i.e. east city) postcodes of London

Times 1974
Arden’s singular stonecrop? (6)
S-R-O- and I’m looking at Shakespeare’s As You Like It and getting nowhere, and the sermon on the mount

sarson? Can't parse

...or sarsen, even!

...sarson being the vinegar...

I think I have it!!!! From As You Like It: "sermons in stones, and good in everything" thus SERMON

And the Times from 1974 again.
Moore's wife (7) M-M-E-S
The next clue reads David's wife and it's AGNES so don't know if that has any relevance?

Got it. George Moore wrote A Mummer's Wife. Another book I've never heard of!

Cretin66, glad you got it. I'm glad clues like that don't appear in cryptic puzzles these days. You've given several that are really just quiz questions (and pretty obscure too!).

Another short but tricky one from The Times 1973.
One alternative to gradual progress in America (4)
The answer is ERIC but I have no idea why, apart from the fact that it's within the word America. Surely this one is actually cryptic and not a reference to a book I've never read! (and never will)