Tls 956

[Spaghetti]

Stuck on the last two as usual...

Hopkins's smith's was far from fine towards the end (6) -u---e

Fifth kind of account of novelist's capture by cannibals (5) --p-e

Can anyone help, please?

[emeritus]

2 Typee

[emeritus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee

[Spaghetti]

thanks, emeritus. Heard of the book but not read it - Moby Dick put me off Melville for life!

[NC4BBQ]

23A: FETTLE (used in Hopkins's "Felix Randal")

[highbury57]

I start a day behind everybody as my TLS only arrives Friday. 15down? Mourning Patroclus, Achilles ignored this Trojan's fatal cotribution. I have E*P*O*B*S. 2down the last one R*E*T "Our poney....s a bit,and its nods sweer to the road." Moby-Dick is a whale of a novel, I know!

[NC4BBQ]

Guesses:

15D: EUPHORBUS

2D: REESTS

[highbury57]

Better than guesses I think. Haste led me to assume it was Achilles' killer not Patroclus' that I should be looking for. Reest is online as northern/Scottish dialect. Thanks!