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4dn: "How well I remember those weeks following your return from Spain .... said!" (Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate. (4) N?F?
Has anyone been able to locate this?
20 dn
Documentary writer in Civil War period. Miles in front as a rule.
(7) T?M?L?N

[dannyk13]

4d.Nuff?

[roslyn251254]

Tamblin?

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[NC4BBQ]

Miles Tomalin.

[Zabadak]

NUFF - the only online reference I can find to it is here: http://www.fegmania.org/archives/fegmaniax/2000/v09.n047
There have to be others.

[dannyk13]

I suggested nuff in the context of nuff ( enough) said

[Zabadak]

Nuff I didn't think it could be anything else in the context and my link does give it. Anyone got Mandelbaum's book?

[Zabadak]

I can't find anything in the history of 20 down that would suggest he was a documentary maker. Not that there's much out there in internet land.
Maybe the clue's a lot more cryptic than it would appear, otherwise it just gives you a first name, invites you to think of a civil war, and try any combination of vowels within the crossing letters until you find someone who has vague connections. Happy to be enlightened.

[Staurologist]

You will find the correct answer to 4dn in Chapter 6 of Muriel Spark's novel.

[dannyk13]

What is it then ?.We don't all have the book

[NC4BBQ]

A person (or persons) named Miles Tomalin fought in the Spanish Civil War and wrote about it; same name also given credit for documentaries.

[Zabadak]

Thanks NC4BBQ, I guess that unpacks the clue a bit - not the same person, then. Still not one of the all time great clues.
Dannyk13 - check my link - you don't have to buy the book.

[slaney]

It may be just me Zabadak, but I don't find it easy to scan that link.
For a while I thought I might just have to re-read the book, but it is indeed there in Chapter 6, in a letter from a Miss Rickward to Barbara Vaughan.
'I hope the food (if I am not treading on holy ground by mentioning that mundane but essential factor) is not unwholesome. How well I remember those weeks following your return from Spain ... 'Nuff said!'
What a very odd clue.

[Zabadak]

Slaney - no argument from me, though the quote is in there in a list of citings of the phrase "nuff said" about 2/3 way down the page. I did't select it for its neatness, but because as far as I can tell it's unique in internet land in confirming our setter's example.

[Staurologist]

One of the great things about TLS crosswords is that they are not just about solving a puzzle. They constantly remind you about great books or bring them to your attention for the first time. I re-read "The Mandelbaum Gate" as a result of this puzzle and got things out of it that I didn't get the first time. But Zabadak ("you don't have to buy the book") and Slaney ("For a while I thought I might just have to re-read the book") seem to think that it would be otiose to have to [re-]read it. However, I encourage you all to give it a go. There are plenty of cheap editions available through addall.com.

[highbury57]

some of you have been lucky to get your TLS on time. Mine arrived yesterday so i am well behind!Any help with 12a Very handy,very big chap,returning to make legal claim against thorn bush

[bibblebub]

Briareus http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1199570.html

[highbury57]

Thank you. I can now face Christmas with equanimity