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[lashley]

help and explanations please-seems very hard this week
1a souvenir of Almathea,a gift from zeus 10 C???U?????
13a how could i forget?"muses mother 9 Melpomene?
20a "---are dull,partly because everyone pretends to understand them"walter raleigh,letters 8 ends s lectures?
27a queen elizabeth's brother gets strange real flowers 10 ?A???????Y something with edard/ted?
thanks

[bellabee]

almathea was the goat whose broken horn zeus turned into the horn of plenty 'cornucopia'

[Calibax]

13a Mnemosyne goddess of memory (from which we get mnemonic) and mother of the Muses

[NC4BBQ]

Earl Rivers was Queen Elizabeth's brother---"earl" anagram of "real," rivers flow, hence are flow-ers.
Bromides are dull

[lashley]

many thanks

[trotwood]

Mnemosyne, memory = mother of Muses

[trotwood]

Cornucopia for 1 a; I think Almathea means Amalthea.
I need 4d escaped gladiator, 27a Queen Elizabeth's brother, 29a composer of suite inspiring greene. Then I'll be through! Trotwood

[crucifernz]

For Trotwood:

4D Oenomaus
27A Earl Rivers
29A Kabalevsky