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Getting there. 21d Height of Brookes's poetic art (3, 4) T - E - I - L
Is this The Hill, can't find any reference?
23d Murdered king a very fat man according to some judges (5) E - L - N
8d He alone concludes gothic trilogy (5) - - T - -
Thanks a lot.

[Flyhalf]

21d The Hill. By Rupert Brooke (NOT Brookes, as suggested by the clue as written here).

[roslyn251254]

yes The Hill - Rupert Brooke
http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/blbrookethehill.htm
23d EGLON bible.cc/judges/3-17.htm
8d TITUS? as in titus groan gormenghast trilogy

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Thanks. That was a typo should have been Brooke's.

[roslyn251254]

the clue actually reads brooke's Bigjack

[kettledrum]

8d Titus ... Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake