Tls

[mra1]

Grr - I dont like Broteas crosswords - find it very hard to get connections - could do with some help - Balzac's translated contribution to Tristram Shandy T??, ?????, S????;
Ford's final attitude in America ???, ?A?G, ?O??
Salman's wicked parts on the edge SATANIC ?E?G?S I know the G is correct (regularly being like Weldo's women ie BIG)
after posterior like a spanker? ?S???A
Jargon from Christian seen in Felix Holt mostly ????O

[Mamyalynne]

Salman's wicked parts on the edge - Satanic verges

* appears to indicate changing a letter

[Mamyalynne]

Balzac's translated contribution to Tristram Shandy

Struggling with this one, a tentative

The Black Sheet , referencing a black page ????

[mra1]

Thank you for that you are a star - could not think what the connections were!

[Mamyalynne]

Ford's final attitude in America ???, ?A?G, ?O??


I have the middle word as '?O?T'

23d Being Octet

Louisa May's - Eight Cousins

[Mamyalynne]

Still a work in progress here

I did wonder if

25a The Last Word ??

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry , typo above

Ford's final attitude in America ???, ?A?G, ?O??


I have the middle word as '?A?T'

[mra1]

Louisa May's cousins in a sonnet were eight if he is talking about louisa may alcott which is obviously wrong as your T would make it the last something

[aelmpvw]

1 the magic skin?

[mra1]

Octet makes sense - never thought of that one!

[scorpiojo]

The last post?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Post_(novel)

[Lie-in King]

"Jargon from..."

(Rev. John) Lingo(n) - mostly, character here -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Holt,_the_Radical#Characters

^Last in list

[mra1]

Thank you Lie-in King. Last post sounds reasonable Scorpiojo which would make the "spanker" clue ?S?T?A

[Mamyalynne]

I missed jargon from , hard to read with no clue numbers.

[scorpiojo]

Astern?

[mra1]

The T is from the last post and the A is from the lotus eAters) Tajana's racing car joins the contest

[mra1]

Just a thought - as the clue for the last post has an asterisk in front ie change a letter could it be last POSE? which would give the "e" for astern and perhaps someone could think of a suitable alternative to THE LOTUS (EATERS) which is similarly asterisked

[aeronut]

the lotus enters

[scorpiojo]

Arrrgh!

[mra1]

Thank you aeronut - can anyone confirm then it is the last pose not post?

[scorpiojo]

Pose works for 'attitude'