Top left corner is a pain in the gluteus maximus. Help please. 9a Chaps with a secret about poetically thoughtful chap(10) *A*****T*S 11aSocial satirist embarrassed one in the grip of crank(8)*E*****H...
26a A French article on books by Joe about sad tales of village life (8,4) *L*N*E*O/*L*E Something Blue? 25a Call lose Maria Dangerfield’s mistress(9) B*L*A*I*A I found Belveedira with regards to...
18a Dances get going in parties at Baltic capital (9) I*G*D*O*S
Pretty sure letters are right. Is there possibly an anagram of Riga somehow fitting in? It’s the last clue so help is being sought....
Last two on bottom right corner. 28a University dons like a number one novelist(6) **S*E* and 20d Form of adoration last seen in criminal courts(6) *A*R** Last letter of 20a is first letter of 28a...
21d He’s not quite cordial to Iago finally.(6)*a*a*o
10a Poem with lines added for Bruno’s dream son-in-law(5) I think it’s possibly Idyll but can’t do better other than ll as lines....
Two tiddlers. 2d One reared by a miser recording food (5) E*P*E
and 25d In my view War and Peace is one(4) *O*E
Possibly tome? The P in the first one might be erroneous.......
12a Old female,51, hugs foremost of illustrators, an artist associated with Pooh(5)O*I*I I can only get Oribi which is a South African antelope. Seems most unlikely! An L for the 50? An S for Shepard...