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[lashley]

last few-help and explanations please
28a study painting externally being full of zeal 6 ???E?T zest?
30a two cardinals appear in this work6 ???S?s something to do with numbs or religious ones or butterflies??
22d novel site for cricket 6 ?E???? game or insect?
thanks

[cupid04]

28a] ardent

[tommy-h]

30,reredo?

[lashley]

just got 22d

[beckersjay]

What was it Lashley - I'm still struggling!

[lashley]

hearth but still stuck on 30a -now ?H?S?S

[beckersjay]

Thanks!
Thought of thesis for 30 ac but don't see how it fits the clue so perhaps not...

[factor-fiction]

Could the 2 cardinals be E and S appearing in THIS?

[lashley]

i also thought thesis but why?HE=CARDINAL BUT THAT'S ONLY ONE

[tommy-h]

could you explain hearth?

[beckersjay]

Crumbs! Thanks Housemouse, I'd never have thought that throug without help!!

[factor-fiction]

I don't think that wouldn't work, housemouse- wouldn't that give THIS and HE which wouldn't be an anagram of thesis

[lashley]

IT CAN'T BE THIS ROUND HE AS THERE AREN'T ENOUGH HS?

[lashley]

FINALLY GOT IT-it's cardinal points of the compass

[lashley]

thanks all-dickens wrote the cricket and the hearth

[factor-fiction]

By E and S I meant Es (plural of E)