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[highbury57]

Little fiddly ones at the end!
27a(5) It
was curtains for the critic T*N*N
14a(5)Venetian opera composeruses race in French law L*T*I
5d(3,7) Scott as presented by Cunningham SIR/*I*H***
Help please. Have looked at them for too long.

[sandyRoe]

14 Lotti

[vakayu]

5d Sir Michael Cunningham

[bibblebub]

27a) Kenneth TYNAN

He wrote Curtains in1961 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Tynan

[sad19]

27a Tynan see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curtains-Selections-criticism-related-writings/dp/B0000CL6FB
14a Lotti (tt in loi)
5d I think it's far sighted but can't back it up.

[highbury57]

Thanks. I did feel there was a painting of Scott looking into the far distance, but cannot place it. However there is a poem by Hugo called The favourite sultana. Ho hum!

[bibblebub]

Allan Cunningham wrote "Sir Michael Scott" and was friendly with Sir Walter Scott, so maybe the novel was based on him (but only a guess).

[bibblebub]

... or maybe it's just the title which matters, so nothing to do with Sir Walter.