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[yellow11]

help and explanations please
1a henry's treasonable henry 4,6 L?R?/??R?O? lord?
15a hang around in the second character part inTHE LITTLE MINISTER 8 T?N???E?
20a cressida's lover finds setter among semiconductors 8 ?????D?S troilus?
23a sonnet subsiding a quatrain short ? 9 D/C////// DEC SOMETHING?
THANKS

[shaneystar2]

1a Lord Scrope
Henry Scrope,he was a baron and favourite of Henry V .
He was in a plot to assassinate him.The Southampton plot .
Needless to say he got caught and his head chopped orf .

[ladyalex]

23a Decastitch
Poem of 10 lines, ie 4 lines short of a sonnet

[ladyalex]

20a Secundus ??
Who is the setter ?

[slaney]

20a Dio(me)des

[ladyalex]

I bow to the superior intelligence/knowledge of slaney.
Diomedes it is!
:-))

[slaney]

Gee ladyalex - no need to bow! :0)

[yellow11]

thanks all but23a can't be decastitch as it's only 9 letters not 10;also lord scrope doesn't fit as pretty sure 2nd word is ??R?O?
i get the wo0 from 5d she understood swann's way??E?T?=odette?

[yellow11]

have also noticed 15a should be T?W???E?

[slaney]

Lord Scroop is an alternative spelling

http://www.opensource...dscroop&WorkID=henry5

[slaney]

15a Thwaites is a character from The Little Minister
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073300/combined

yellow11, you give the number of letters for 23a above as 9 - so decastich would fit.

[yellow11]

thanks again!