Tls

[dafyddapgwilym]

Grrr.
It's that time again. Sailed through the rest, and have come to the usual grinding halt with this one last clue which has me utterly stumped.
8down) Beauty's budding offspring (5)
I have L?N?Y and it looks rather like LENNY, but goodness - and hopefully some kind person out there - knows why...

[donny48]

Laney

noun - United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933)
as in Black Beauty
Very, very iffy.

[dafyddapgwilym]

Blimey. Thanks, donny48. Iffy indeed. Better than anything I could find, for sure, but it's a pretty odd clue if that's the answer.

[aelmpvw]

hinny?

[scorpiojo]

Are you sure of your letters?

[fiction-factory]

Yes, Hinny looks much better

[dafyddapgwilym]

Well, the L comes from CUBITAL, the N from GENTLEMAN and the Y from MILITARY, all of which I am reasonably confident are right - but I will be happy to be corrected!

[scorpiojo]

Clue for cubital?

[fiction-factory]

What's the clue for the cubial one please.
Actually I'm not at all sure about Hinny now as the answer should probably be a literary reference (more than Black Beauty)

[aelmpvw]

what's the clue giving cubital?

[aelmpvw]

i doubted myself ff, can't see black beauty producing a hinny :-)

[dafyddapgwilym]

5ac) Mowgli, so-called, has it all mostly in the forearm (7)

[fiction-factory]

So CUBITAL must be right.

[aelmpvw]

ah, hinny's wrong then

[fiction-factory]

There is a black beauty plant which may explain the 'budding' but I can't see the answer or literary reference

[Mamyalynne]

Still struggling to parse this one, but the nearest I got was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(short_story)

[dannyk13]

Jenny ( Equine female) ?

[fiction-factory]

The L seems to be right though, danny

[Woodside187]

Think Lenny looks most likely. But gtfl for confirmation of 9a Dickensian actor with a bit of burlesque for his second half, contemptible chap (5) G?U?B Grubb? (or Glubb) Tks

[dafyddapgwilym]

Grubb. Grub+b.

[haybaath]

I’m going out on a limb on this one and putting LINDY.
1. Lindy is the name of a character in a book called Beastly bun Alex Flynn: a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast take. Lindy is Beauty. 2. Lind or linden is the lime tree after James Lind (budding).
3. Lindy Bop = a dance (offspring).
It’s all a bit of a leap really and I didn’t enjoy this crossword!