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[stevelyn1]

last few10a set with shampoo finally holds one in place 6???R??-perm?
24a reflection of what fits in frame nicely?6 C?N???canvas?
26a inclined position over a hollow barrel6 L?A???leaned?
6d american writer tennnessee absorbing washington irving's lead 5 A???N
8d runs over bird squashing tail of showy red 10
E???S?Y?T?
21dsouth indian maiden in shadow 5 T????trail?trace?
22d rutherford was one primarily known in wilde's importance 4 ?I?I
many thanks

[GetOverIt]

24a Cinema - frAMENICely

21d Tamil

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22d Kiwi

[MardlingMan]

10 a Hairdo
26 a Liable
6d Twain
8d Trotskyite

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8d Trotskyite

[dot.hawkes]

22d is 'mss' i think, margaret Rutherford played Miss Prism in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest.

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Can anyone explain my last one

23d Succeeded in black humour

I have ?E?T

I'm thinking beat or best - but I can't see why ?

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22d is the initial letters of known in wilde's importance

KIWI

[stevelyn1]

thanks all-i think i go for miss for 22d but then what is 27a i've written a negative word about troubled lives 8 ?O?E?S?T-i had novelist but that makes 22d ?I?I-so why kiwi?
also why twain?

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22d Ernest Rutherford - The New Zealand atomic physicist

27ac Is novelist giving the I for KIWI

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Tn is short for Tennessee

absorbing Wa - for Washington and I -Irvings's lead

Twain - American Author

[wideboy]

23d is JEST - Jet with S included

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Cheers Wideboy - I was on the wrong track totally !