TLS 866

[flocker]

Last two
16 ac. HIs journal was outspoken, his diary secret.
I have G?A???C?I
24 ac Shipping manoeuvre reported to 18's colleague in strange metres.
?? / ?T?M
Could it be RE/ STEM

[flocker]

Brabantio in Othello!

[Zabadak]

re-stem looks right, it is in Othello and addressed to a fellow senator. But it's one word.

[Zabadak]

The diarist is Giovannino Guareschi

[Zabadak]

Ask Shakespeare: he invented most of the language. This is from Othello, the locus citatus. I suspect WS was making it up as he went along to fit the iambic pentameters

First Senator:
Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?

Messenger:
Of thirty sail: and now they do restem
Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance
Their purposes toward Cyprus.

I think it just means "they turned round", but that's not poetry.

[Zabadak]

Also appears in other editions as "re-stem"

[NC4BBQ]

OED says:

trans. To make (one's way, course, etc.) back against the direction of the current or tide. Also: to make renewed headway against (the sea).


with examples from Shakespeare and a few others.

One ancient mariner has never heard the term, although we do say "stem the tide" now and again.

[walgraver]

10A - German forest on TV, offered by 27, 29 ? (3,5) I have B?X?A????. 27A is presumably Carol - what is her surname 29A ?

7D - exhibiting ignoble strife - I have M?????G

8D - Household dwarfs performed it (5) - I only have D????

12A - Smith and Brunton suggest a heroine for Stowe (8) - I have ?M?E????

Thanks in advance for any help

[Zabadak]

Walgraver: try googling household dwarfs

The TV German forest thing gives Box (g) Arden
That gives you the author

You are not far from the (m?????g answer - stay Hardy

[Zabadak]

Oh, and It seems Stowe was a fan of Ms Pankhurst

[walgraver]

Many thanks for help so far - I still don't know who Carol ??I?L?S is - 27 and 29 A

[shaneystar2]

Carol Shields who wrote the Box Garden .

[pcoles]

For 7D, think of a line Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard from which Hardy took a title....