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scarlett

1st March 2024, 07:23
6d Herrick wrote this book, about one in Hamlet maybe (2,7)
T? / ??A?E?E
16d Pound, a writer of verses who inspired another one (8)
?E?T???E
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chrise

1st March 2024, 07:47
herrick wrote "to dianeme", which fits?
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jono

1st March 2024, 07:51
Good spot, Chris. I had the wrong Herrick.

It’s TOME (book) around DANE (Hamlet maybe) and I (one)
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scarlett

1st March 2024, 07:52
Many thanks chrise and jono
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malone

1st March 2024, 08:04
16 This could be wildly wrong... Beatrice, who inspired Dante? Beat, pound and Rice, a writer of verses ( a guess, maybe Tim Rice counts?).
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jono

1st March 2024, 08:11
Looks likely, Malone.
Perhaps the reference is to Helen Steiner Rice.
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scarlett

1st March 2024, 08:14
Thank you...this would make 23a ?I?A?D
Shakespearean general who once had to be told about fighting
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scarlett

1st March 2024, 08:16
Siward?
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jono

1st March 2024, 08:25
Yes, from Macbeth.
Fighting is WAR.
Is SID (said) an old word for told? Perhaps.
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malone

1st March 2024, 08:25
Thanks, Jono. I'd forgotten about Helen Steiner Rice - whose 'verse' has never appealed to me!
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