Saga Crossword

[margarettom]

I think I know the answers to the clues BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY!!!! This is SO frustrating I'm appealing for help, as you have never failed me yet. So thanks in advance.

8d Boar's Head at Eastcheap, say, a subject for drama. (D-L-S, -O-S-)
Presumably Doll's House because of the play, but WHY Boar's Head etc?????

24a Wear a rather revealing top emerging from the water (A-A-A-)
Presumably ararat but again WHY????

[bert_h]

24a weAR A RATher ...

[bibblebub]

24a) it's in the middle of ...weAR A RATher... and Mount Ararat was where Noah's Ark came to rest

[emeritus]

8d Explanation here

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Question436144.html

[slaney]

The Boar's Head at Eastcheap featured in Shakespeares plays including Henry IV, where Doll Tearsheet was a character

[azed22]

Saga Xwd 8d. The stage directions for Act II Scene IV of Shakespeare's Henry IV Pt.2 read: "London. A room in the Boar's Head Tavern, in Eastcheap." Doll Tearsheet figures in this scene as an employee or associate of Mistress Quickly, the owner of the tavern, which is, in one sense, "Doll's House".
NB. The stage directions are those in the OUP 1905 edition.