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[pcoles]

This is a hard one!

I can't get 1ac A musical monologue -hardly true - and addressed to Celia (1,7)

A-A-T-R-

or 21ac Borders are invaded by Dickensian nasty (9)

S-A-R-E-D

Any offers?

[Lie-in King]

A Rapture (?)

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/carew/raptu re.htm

[pcoles]

That's probably right. A rap + anagram of true. I was thrown by the suggestion that rap has something to do with music.

[Lie-in King]

ROFL! Agreed... :-)

[pcoles]

how about the other one?

S-A-R-E-D doesn't look like any Dickensian villain I'm aware of...

[Lie-in King]

Nor me, I'm afraid - I'll keep thinking, though I'm sure someone on here will know the answer!

[yinchiao]

There is one Dickensian villain, from Bleak House, who will fit if you agree to change your "R" to an "L" (the intersecting answer being "LAD IN" for "boy at home") - however, it's a bit far-fetched to say that "borders are invaded" by SMALLWEED . . .