TLS 917

[pjwillcox]

25a Governess in Walpole's stronghold (7) T???D??
10d Chapman's theatrical agents described as dim (6,6) S?M?L? S?????
(Simple something? penult letter is last letter 25a) Many tks

[cupid04]

simple sennit

[slaney]

Simple Simons? Chapman - pedlar.

[walgraver]

Don't think 'simple sennit' is right as it clashes with 23A - 'academe' (possibly 'academy').
19A - A party-goer of Eliot's etc. (5) may be Gibbs. I have ??B??
So 19D - Dramatic performance by Dane likely to rock audiences ? (7) could be G?A???E
Any other ideas ?

[pjwillcox]

Tks Walgraver - I have the same as you & scratching my head.

[bulliver]

19a (Alexander MacColgie) Gibbs in 'The Cocktail Party' (T.S. Eliot)

[pjwillcox]

10d must be Simple Spymen (John Chapman), leaving 25a as T???D?E(Walpole governess ??) and 19d as G?A???E

[slaney]

Came back to say - too late - that my answer was wrong.
24a I can find a reference to a "grim Miss Trindle" who accompanies the children in Hugh Walpole's The Fortress"

[NC4BBQ]

19d GRANITE (play by Clemence Dane)

[pjwillcox]

Tks v much Slaney and NC4BBQ

[walgraver]

I'm going for 'simple spymen' in 10D although I don't get it - this means 23A is 'academy' rather than 'academe' as I first thought. Otherwise, now all solved. Thanks all.

[highbury57]

25a tilde the Spanish accent on top of the letter n?

[highbury57]

I mean 25down of course. Getting as bad as the setter.