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5d. Can the most powerful man get the pick of the dancing girls?
MAY QUEEN

17d. Scholastic life a person working on books intended to take up
ACADEMIA

15a. Knowing about books English novelists haven't finished
WELL-READ

19a. Unloading left, right and centre in this country
UGANDA

Parses for the above please.

5. May = can and Queen = man, most powerful man, as
in a chess piece.

19 U,and G, left and right letters in Unloading, A, in the middle/centre of it, so UG and A.

17 aimed a ca (chartered accountant) upwards
15 h g wells and miss read?

17. Academia, scholastic life. A CA, a chartered accountant, a person working on books and Aimed, intended, reversed (up).

For 15, wouldn't Read(e), a famous author (apparently!) be better?

well, i've heard of miss read, but never read any, but not reade
if reade is right, is there an author called welle?

For 15, the 2 novelists must be Charles Reade and HG Wells, rights? Unfinished, so WELL-READ.

Thank you for the replies.

7d. Fellow composer pinching notes of a Mendelssohn overture?
HEBRIDEAN

10a. Simple accommodation for the middle class in the main
CABIN

8d. Soft in the brain such a person?
PINHEAD


Parses for the above please.