Tls

[mra1]

stuck on last 6: Lamb opens these Kipling poems about start of lammas (5,5) S????,S?A??:

Jameson's may have ruined the lovely ship (6) ???R?S:

Was about to disapprove of medium used by the waggoner (&) WA?O??S:

literary anecdotes doing the rounds; no change there then A?A; and one of nine rings for mortals endlessly involved with one ??I??R

[scorpiojo]

Ana

[scorpiojo]

^4

[mra1]

Thank you - please note I returrned the carriage twice between each clue but yet again it went back to continual script after I posted!

[scorpiojo]

I do appreciate it, mra1 :) ...Try pressing return just once after each question.

[bibblebub]

5: TAILOR - bell ringing in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Tailors

anagram of (m)ortal(s)+i

[mra1]

thank you Bibblebub - never thought of Sayers - read all her books including that one!

[scorpiojo]

2 Storms?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Jameson

[bibblebub]

3: WABOOMS - wood used for making South African wagons

WA boo m S

[aeronut]

Storms {Storm Jameson)

[mra1]

Thank you again Bibblebub - and Scorpiojo and Aeronut - that was staring me in the face and I still did not see it!

[scorpiojo]

Have you any more letters for Q1?

[bibblebub]

1: Seven Seals ???

Kipling wrote The Seven Seas and Further Barrack-Room Ballads so put an L in the first half of that - but haven't sussed the Lamb connection yet.

[scorpiojo]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_seals

[bibblebub]

ah ta jo

[mra1]

Thank you both very much for that!

[scorpiojo]

Welcome :)