Tls 1189

[yellow11]

help please and parsing
6a choral composition that has a way of working at a festival 5 M???? motet?
12a munthe to cut start of letter 4
21a say a line the equal of shakespeare 4
26a is to shortly choose story orwell primarily made about having two legs equal 9 ????C?L??
thanks

[Toorak]

6 mo (modus operandi) + tet ( festival)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T

[yellow11]

thanks-have 26a now

[Captain2]

12a Cut = AXE + L = start of Letter

Axel Munthe - Author

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Munthe#In_English

[Captain2]

Do wish you wouldn't do that yellow - if you've solved it before us at least do us the courtesy of telling us the answer.

[Captain2]

Isosceles

[Toorak]

21 Rowe?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Rowe_(writer)

[Toorak]

Thank you captain2!

[yellow11]

thanks-sorry captain
21a now E?P?

[Toorak]

Ok - so it's not Rowe...

Back to the drawing board

[yellow11]

also stuck on last one
28a crime of chaucer pilgrim leaving quietly 5 A?Y?N aryan?

[Toorak]

(P)arson?

[yellow11]

21a is now egal/so 15d franklin't tale for the birds-C?C?A?O?S cockatoos or cockapoos,but he doesn't tell a bird tale!

[yellow11]

not cockapoos-they're dogs!

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatoos_(novel)

[yellow11]

many thanks-just got it!