Slightly Foxed readers were invited to test their literary skills with our crossword in the Winter issue and judging by the hundreds of correct entries we received you truly are a literary lot! Here are the answers.
Across
1 Just beat Miss Woodhouse after noon (3,4) PIP EMMA
7 see 9 across
9, 7 She was penned by a horseman, exhausted (5,7) RIDER HAGGARD
10 Yosser, Dixie, George and Chrissie: his able lads exploded with energy (9) BLEASDALE
11 Irish flower for Tennessee Williams’s Larry (7) SHANNON
14 New Englanders seek any resort (7) YANKEES
16 His Norman lady is welcome, but flare flickers after puff of wind (7,8) GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
18 One caught in thicket, a one caught by the tongue (7) ARAMAIC
20 A clicky true, he might have said (7) SPOONER
22 In us all we turn to a Welsh poet (4,5) ALUN LEWIS
25 I give a card to Wilde’s husband (5) IDEAL
27 John’s mother on a reel, spinning (7)ELEANOR
28, 16 down Strange Thames hankering; energy needed for author of river idyll (7,7) KENNETH GRAHAME
Down
1 Copied from new map edition (4) APED
2 Old essayist needs a doctor after fifty (4) LAMB
3 Happy, almost in heaven, Chas and Ed gave Nick a job (10) CHEERYBLES
4 Encourages breakfast being cooked? (4,2) EGGS ON
5 One seduced Helen, another loved Juliet (5) PARIS
6 Tempestuous woman? Yes and no (7) MIRANDA
8 Sunken river dog, say, swallows shilling (4-3) DEEP SET
12 Italian city goes back in a format so alpine (5) AOSTA
13 His hay fever, a feverish Cold War one (4,6) NOEL COWARD
15 Free-hitting batsman has this – probably two of them (3,2) EYE IN
16 see 28 across
17 Moreish? (7) UTOPIAN
19 Unwell, not succeeding, capital gone (6) AILING
21 Udall’s blustering coward inside a regular alpha male (5) RALPH
23 Benefits of ownership, like Hoggart’s of literacy (4) USES
24 His Bassington – such a kind individual at the start? Not so (4) SAKI
26 Steinbeck’s Trasks east of this project (4) EDEN
