1a Novel missiles in black, gold (golden) - and the blue(6)A?????
2d "He who runs may read" (and he who sits still perhaps -)(7)??R?A??
The third letter of 1a equals the first of 2d.
Thanks sophie and JimC. Does that make 3d Dog from London(5,4)W?I?E???G "white Flag", and 14a Nameless bard, or Italian(5)O?S?L, "ousel"? If so, please explain the wordplay!
14 ACROSS is an Italian word meaning 'or' - often used in music. Add an 'n'(NAME) to this word and you get an imaginary Celtic poet who supposedly wrote an epic on the subject of the hero Fingal