The author is L. M. Montgomery and the quote is from her 'Anne's House of Dreams'. However, there are two errors - 12H on the lower grid has been blacked out - it's W and 11F on the upper grid is T...
5A - his head of state was barely visible (8) I have A?D?R?E? 9A - Poor verse, or libretti for bad operettas, at the end of the day (10) I have ?O?T?S?E?Y 10A - The Raven, from Dickens (4) I have G?I?...
18A - his 2 neither lost nor regained (8). I have ?O?T?M?R - it looks like Mortimer but I don't know why 25A - Tame Spenserian (7). I have A?E?A?E - average ? 8D - A wife to Burns (6) I have S?O?S?....
5A - A place for Sir Thomas Browne's subterranean artefacts (7) I have L?C?L?S. Looks like LOCALES but 'a place' is singular and 'locales' is plural. 1D - He was led astray in average Wordsworth work...
18A - Marryat featured her man (9) I have ??I?A?E?H. I thought ELIZABETH but since I think 1D is Slave Ship I must be wrong. 5D - she refused at least one coronet, said her neice Sophia (3, 7) I have...
2 left - I think !
21A - pleb raver wildly preceding action (9) I have P?E?E?B?L - preverbal ?, can't find it in dictionaries
5D - did he feel impelled to tell England ? (7) I have R?Y?O?D...
2 remaining
22A - Long distance writer (8) I have M?R?I?E? - Martinez ? why?
27A - Shakesperian knight with connections to former heavyweight (3,6) I have S?R?I?R?E - Sir someone ?...
1D - A bare bath might have been provided here (9) I have B?T?A?A??
15D - Poet showing the French caging a bird (9) I have L???????E
17D - Chap flowers in Simms book (3,6) I have G?Y, ?I????S...
2 remaining. 18A - he gave us a start in life and told us it goes on (8) I have S?L?I?O? 6D - George Russell's Irish version of Norse gods (5) i have A?S?R. George Russell was known as AE - does that...
1A - Hunter's jungle (10) I have ??A?K?O?R? -who is Hunter? 1D -A figured ___ which fell naively from his slender shoulders (4) I have ??J? - what on earth can it be ? 27A Kingsley's was fat (10) -...
ST 1 April 2012 Has anyone done this 'Where was I' comp. ? I think I have the first answer ELCHO but can't get the second. The letters I have are F, O, L, I, O, R, A, N - the ninth letter is possibly...
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1A - put out graduate painter (6) I have S???B?
2D - Why shall we say it's a character from Athens ? (7) I have ??S?L?N
Any help welcome....