Literary Characters quiz

[blueterrier]

I am submitting this for my elderly neighbour who has no access to a computer. She is doing this quiz and the following clues are the ones she either cannot get or she is unsure of her answer. She is happy to trade other answers.
4. Pirate officer shot (7,4)
52. This sailor did wrong, we hear - wicked! (7)
55. Barman puts drink on the bar (7)
62. Important find in a hand-bag (6,8)
64. Confused, I laze to be lazy, you hear, and join gala tea (5,9)
72. Dodgson's threat (3,6)
86. Mrs.Archer, perhaps, had detailed rodents (7,4)

Thanks in advance for any help, hints etc.

[crofter]

I wanted it to be TEMPE (no such person) from Temple Court on the Circle Line!

[geo0939]

Don't you mean Phoebe?

[geo0939]

Surely Phoebe is the proper spelling.

[geo0939]

How about Chloe for the shepherdess?

[crofter]

I discarded CIRCE very early on for reasons set out above. The Phoebe/PHEBE link looks promising - certainly PHEBE is known as a shepherdess, whereas Circe is not!

[geo0939]

PS Sorry to go on about Phoebe but I hadn't realised we were on another page and couldn't see my forst posting. Oops!

[slaney]

Good afternoon crofter
I really like your Tempe!

[crofter]

slaney - I traced a "VALE of TEMPE" in Greece and really thought that I had cracked it - but just couldn't pin it down!

[kettledrum]

The only 5 lettered shepherdesses I can think of are:

Chloe (Daphnis & Chloe)
Phebe & Celia (diguised as) from AYLI
Mopsa from Winter's Tale

Apart from being 5 letters and shepherdesses I can see no other connection to the clue ( court + line + circle)

This setter is subtle and witty, but above all ACCURATE and I don't think any of the answers we've come up with so far take all these meaningful words properly into account.

[geo0939]

Just found this quote " Circe is no longer depicted enthroned but is now depicted in a rural landscape, in which she takes on the appearance of a shepherdess".

[blueterrier]

geo0939

to answer an earlier query of yours the answer is 5 letters, hence changing Phoebe for Phebe, ie deleting the line that makes a circle !!

ps im into this now, should get my own copy!!

[kettledrum]

I was just thinking, blue terrier, that you'd probably let yourself in for more than you'd bargained for when you originally offered to help your elderly neighbour!

Thank you for letting us hijack your thread. The Circe problem has been rumbling sporadically but its last appearance is now rather lost in the mists of time, and it's good to be able to bring it up to date.

[blueterrier]

Hi kettledrum
My neighbour is good to me and lets my dog out when i'm away all day so I like to return a favour. She kept showing me this quiz (among many others) and I said I would see what I can find via Google but very often it sends me back to this site, so in for a penny......... etc
Its good fun though, can see why you all get hooked.

[pquinlan]

Well done ddon for getting 72. Note of caution that Lewis Carroll never used the phrase Mad Hatter in the book, the character was called The Hatter (later became popularly known as Mad Hatter).

[geo0939]

I think my previous quote fairly covers the clue ie; Once enthroned is courtly, now depicted as a sheperdess. The circle minus L(line), as already mentioned.

[ddon]

Thanks pquinlan. Didn't know that. I was amazed to come back to this thread and see how it has taken off.

[Pea Brain]

Sorry to get in on the action for my own ends but has anyone got ideas for number
32. The only-begotten and second sons meet for this lady (10)

[swannbaker]

Christabel .