Tls 1155

[highbury57]

A severe teacher could make initially robust bairn become ill(8,7)
I have C*R*E*I*/B***B*R
Having got the TLS late and having just returned fro shopping I feel like the subject of the clue, nearly losing the will to live!

[Mamyalynne]

Cornelia Blimber (Dombey and Son)

R(obust) + anag of - bairn become ill

[highbury57]

Thanks. The pain of the shopping will become a distant memory.

[aelmpvw]

cornelia blimber, teacher in dombey and son

[Mamyalynne]

Put your feet up now H.

[highbury57]

Wrapping follows! Last one please...Italian creator of a trilogy based in 10.10 turns out to be Rome.R*S*I*S*. Ought to be Respighi.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes , he wrote a trilogy of Tone Poems set in Rome

[Captain2]

Where does your second 'S' come from?

[Mamyalynne]

Didn't spot that - that letter is an 'H'

[highbury57]

D'accord! I am going crazy....