Tls Crossword 1030

[walgraver]

not doing too well on this one.
1A - like Hiawatha's feet (8) I have ??O???I?
25A - Schoenberg set twenty-one such songs from Giraud in his Op.21 (Pierrot Lunaire ?) (8) I have ?E?????E
8D - how Elton approached essentials (8) I have R?T?R???

[Mamyalynne]

1a Trochaic

[Mamyalynne]

^ Poetic 'feet'

[scorpiojo]

8 Returned?

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Return_to_Essentials.html?id=MsM1l4KkTJMC

[Lie-in King]

25a Ensemble (?)

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

[aeronut]

25ac Gedichte (ensemble does not work with the checking letters}

How about 23ac: I have a?a?e. Clue is "He wrote around cinemas , at half-past eight, we hear(5)"

[Lie-in King]

Apologies! That was why I included a '?' - I have never seen the word 'gedichte'.

[aeronut]

You are forgiven, your majesty.

[NC4BBQ]

23a:

JAMES AGATE, AUTHOR OF AROUND CINEMAS (2 SERIES) AND HALF-PAST EIGHT.

[Mamyalynne]

Well done !!

[aeronut]

Thanks for that.