Thank you Quisling for your contributions. I did in fact thank (and wish a very Happy Christmas to) those people who helped me with some answers when I first posted the questions. However, the entire exchange has disappeared from this address. Unfortunately I'm not at all computer- literate and can do nothing to resuscitate it.
Tell you what - give me the answer to these two clues and I shall not only be profuse in my gratitude but promise not to bother you any further until next year at the earliest. Here they are:
Island.
Consort yearns for such an archipelago. The (11)
and
Building
Rumours of large-scale work by a Venetian dentist. The (5,2,5)I
If this is 'tower of Babel' please tell me why. If not, what is it?
I wish you every blessing in 2023