Tls 1491

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

This week’s TLS is a bit scary and may get the better of me. For now, I’d like help with this one -

Bishop in calamitous battle with Satan, an evil creature in epic poetry (7,5)

I have only B???T in the second word which I suspect may be “beast”

Thanks.

[Captain2]

Blatant Beast - anagram of b(ishop) + blatant + Satan


from The Faerie Queen

[Lie-in King]

Blatant Beast - 'B(ishop)' (in) anag 'battle + Satan'

https://tinyurl.com/khjkmw4u

[JJ109]

Blatant Beast is an anagram of battle satan +B(ishop)

in the fairie queene

[Captain2]

Sorry ^^^ Battle not blatant

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Thanks!

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Picking this up again after a break. I don’t think this one is what I originally thought it was going to be ha

Savage castle owner, a chap protected by two soldiers and another two on his other side (5,7)

I have ???N?/D?S?A?R

Thanks.

[Lie-in King]

Giant Despair - 'Des' (chap) with 'GI + ant' (2 soldiers) + 'pair' (2 more)

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199567454.001.0001/acref-9780199567454-e-771

[Toorak]

Giant despair

Gi ant des pair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Thanks, I was nowhere near that but I’d realised it must be something despair.

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Can I check I’ve got these last two correct then I can put this bad boy to bed?

Monsieur, solitary character created by someone who often wrote in French (6) MALONE

Like some pages of narrative beginning and ending in cover (5) LINED

Thanks muchly.

[Lie-in King]

Malone - 'm(onsieur) alone'
Lined - 'n(arrativ)e' (beginning & ending, in) 'lid'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malone_Dies

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Thanks LiK! Phew, that was a 3 day solve and I thought last week’s was hard!

[Lie-in King]

Glad to help :-)