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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
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
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NUFF - the only online reference I can find to it is here: http://
There have to be others.
There have to be others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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