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slowmotion | 16:28 Sat 23rd Jan 2010 | Crosswords

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Help, please!
23ac Poet to cut children's writer short: ?i????

DT 26145

Sat Telegraph 26145

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Vagrant

I think it's Milton - Hamilton was a writer of school stories.

slowmotion

Question Author

Sorry - don't understand.

slowmotion

Question Author

Thank you, Vagrant.

davidas

Milton - (Ha)milton is a children's writer and the quote of All Hell etc is from Milton's Paradise Lost (though it's "broke" not breaks). I'm not desperately happy with the clue, I tend to think "short' is one letter, two is pushing it.

slowmotion

Question Author

Thank you Davidas - my literature studies are well in the past now!

owl42

is it not "to" inside Miln(e) ?

bathtub

Yes, Owl!

I've no idea who 'Hamilton' is - not a children's author I've heard of and certainly not well known enough to stand up to the test required for a plausible clue.

Quizmonster

I totally agree with Owl...in fact, in the Q & P section, I provided that very answer before I even saw this particular thread.

davidas

I absolutely take the Miln (e) with "to" inserted, much more elegant and unequivocally correct BUT - Virginia Hamilton (Died 2002) was a very famous American writer who won Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honors, the National Book Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. Not unknown at all.

Quizmonster

The use of the word 'short' in crossword clues virtually invariably means something is missing from the END of a word and that missing element consists of ONE letter. There may well be occasions when two letters off the front has been the case, but I certainly cannot recall one. Accordingly, apart from Hamilton's fame - I've never heard of her! - and especially in a British crossword, I don't believe it was ever an option.

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