20a No Oscar for English bandleader with musical routine in rep (6,6) G?R?*?,S???E?
3d A duke in Eilat twice ravaged a self-seeker's wife (8,4)
????I?I?,D?*? looks like an anagram of a d eilat eilat but i can't make anything of it.....
Parsing help please. Makes an appraisal of sums received by intellectual bookshop owner (5,5)
T?K?S / ?T?C? - almost certainly Takes Stock, with the first three or four words as the definition, but I can't see the cryptic element for the life of me.
Given this is the TLS, I wonder if the ‘intellectual bookshop owner’ is a reference to Elliot Stock, see link below, with ‘sums received’ being ‘takes’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Stock
Jono, thank you. I haven't heard of him but you could be right - although the use of 'bookshop owner' rather than publisher is a question mark.
I tried to trace a fictional character in literature who owned a bookshop, but no luck.
The only fictional character who owns a bookshop is Hakan Nesser’s character Inspector van Veeteran. A rather niche idea even for the TLS…and it has the added disadvantage of not fitting in the slightest!