Araucaria 24039

[esmerelda3]

23across please. Nameless novelist left in hotel in 7 ( 24 down ) 10letters
and is 24a TITO and if so why? Thanks

[Argee2]

Austerlitz. Austen without the N and L replacing R in the Ritz (hotel)

[gen2]

How many letters in 23a?
and what was the answer to 7?

[netkey]

austerlitz
tito from work of Mozart La Clemenzia di Tito + Tito= marshal

[Argee2]

And Austerlitz is a battle (7 down)

[gen2]

Ah! So what's the clue for 24 down?

[esmerelda3]

Thank you all very very much

[gen2]

Thank you for being so helpful esmerelda3.

Can I just mention that this site needs two things to work well for everyone.
1). You post the questions
2). We post the answers

That way everone is happy.

[Argee2]

gen2, the clue for 22 down is: London to draw to its close (4) and the answer is town. So the clue to 23 ac reads: Nameless novelist left in hotel in 7 down (battle) 24 down (town). Answer Austerlitz. Hope you can follow that!!

[gen2]

Thanks very much for the explanation Argee, the way the question was laid out it looked like 3 questions (23a, 24d & 24a) with reference to a fourth (7) and incomplete information given. esmerelda3 just ignored me.

[esmerelda3]

to gen2 Sorry I did not intend to ignore you Hope I am forgiven as I will for certain need help again in the future.The truth was that I was not sure that I had indeed got the other answers correct and was going to seem very foolish. But actually foolish is better than rude. So another sorry