Saturday Times Jumbo Cryptic 909 Saturday January 29th 2011

[chrispybacon]

29d A ***, she tolerated Pistol at last, when drunk. (4,9)
D _ L _ / T _ A _ S _ E _ _ (Dell or doll may fit but I certainly can't get it all!)

50d Indian dish - author's spoken of (5) R _ I _ _ (Raita? - but if so, why?)

56a 20 dn. (Gulliver) say, asked if anybody was there. (9) _ _ _ _ E _ L _ R
(Possibly traveller but again if so why?)

If I win using whosoever gets my best answer vote he/she can have the prize - I have enough paper atlases!

[sandyRoe]

Doll Tearsheet

[bibblebub]

29d Doll Tearsheet
50d raita - sounds like 'writer'
56a yes traveller - well known poem that I can't immediately remember

[sandyRoe]

'Is there anybody there said the traveller'

[emeritus]

50d Raita (Writer)

[vegasmad]

50d. raita sounds like writer/author

[kettledrum]

29d Doll Tearsheet
50d raita ... sounds like writer
Gulliver's Travels ... 'Is anybody there? said the traveller .....'

[sandyRoe]

Walter De la Mere poem^^^

[bibblebub]

56a The Traveller by Walter de la Mare http://www.love-poems..._walter_listeners.htm

[ladyalex]

29d Doll Tearsheet is an anagram of 'she tolerated +L (last of pistol)'
and is a prostitute in Henry IV part I

[ladyalex]

Raita doesn't sound much like writer when I say it .....not that I have any doubts that it is correct.
Just get a bit miffed but southern bias of clues sometimes.