Generalist By Didymus - April

[08012006]

12a Feverish (8) ????i???
7d Of pharmaceutical products, available without prescription (9) ???i?i?a?
8d Layperson dedicated to a monastic or religious life (6) ???a?e
10d Final Quartet (6,7) ???t?e ?i?t?n?

[scorpiojo]

7 medicinal?

[scorpiojo]

8 oblate

[Butterbun]

12a febrile?

[08012006]

sorry, not febrile - needs 8 letters.
scorpiojo: thanks for oblate; not sure about medicinal though

[bibblebub]

12a) febrific http://www.thefreedictionary.com/febrific

[bibblebub]

7d) officinal http://www.thefreedictionary.com/officinal

(these words fit the letters, don't know for certain that they are right)

[slaney]

7d Officinal
http://www.yourdictionary.com/officinal

[08012006]

Thanks bibblebub and slaney;
just 10d to solve now, with one more letter in:
Final Quartet (6,7) ?i?t?e ?i?t?n? )

[scorpiojo]

Is there a theme?

[Neveracrossword]

Are you sure of the 't' in 10 D? It looks like Little Gidding, from TS Eliot's Four Quartets.

[slaney]

Little Gidding?
http://allspirit.co.uk/gidding.html

[08012006]

Thanks for little giddings; I had octets, should be octads for 26a

[Neveracrossword]

Happy to help.

[stevenj]

funnily enough i got all them. But obviously everybody else has the answer to the one I cannot track down: The connecting bands holding insects' forewings and hindwings together" 10 letters.
Can someone put me out of my misery please?

[scorpiojo]

Any letters please?

[stevenj]

sorry! *e*i*a*u*e (I think!)

[stevenj]

Any thoughts? i must go to bed very soon!

[scorpiojo]

Been through insect entomology and found nothing:( I'll keep looking.

[Mamyalynne]

Nearest I can get is

Membranule

Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A little membrane.
n. In entomology, a small triangular flap or incurved portion on the posterior part of the base of the wings, seen in certain dragon-flies.

[scorpiojo]

Retinacula