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[caspersuzy]

Need some help with these please.
5ac They proved we were somebody in wartime(5,2,8) ????? ?? ?D?N?I?Y
9AC Seems to define emperor's utterance,ascribedon Graves's book (10) no letters sorry
7dn Is the answer Inarm? Embrace beginnings of Italy'snew art renaissance movement.

[sandyRoe]

5a Means of identity ?

[ladyalex]

7d Inarm looks good to me

[mazie]

9a Stuttering ?

[mazie]

or Stammering ?

[caspersuzy]

Thanx everyone.

[sandyRoe]

Mazie's 'stuttering' looks good. Graves wrote 'I Claudius' and Claudius was a stutterer

[caspersuzy]

On further research, a previous answer to today gave 2 and 4 dn as Nigel Dennis.5dn was a work of his called Cards of identity.Thus, all of this leads me to 9ac being Egocentric, presumably a description fitting Claudius.Once again though,
thanks for your endeavours.

[mazie]

let us know about 9a Suzy...I've just had a look at the back cover of the book (ie.e the part of the clue "ascribed on Graves' book " and the word stammering is used) I dont understand how this crossword works, so will be interested to know

[caspersuzy]

Times Literary supplement crossword is basically a literary crossword with clues formed in a cryptic fahion.