Tls

[lashley]

help please and parsing
1a chap meeting old lover by bay is a pirate captain 9,5 2nd word=?R???
9a she loved a man who wrote about our lady and christmas 6,4 ,2nd word=Y???
11a jack,a traveller on horseback in a book about London6 ??I???
18a melville character with a naval ranl ansd some income but no ship 7,3 ??????N/??? captain?
thanks

[Buenchico]

11a Sailor ?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11902346-sailor-on-horseback

[bobbinwales]

18a does clue say naval ranK?
Book may be white jacket

[lashley]

yes it does

[bobbinwales]

or melville book could be Moby Dick

[aeronut]

18ac is Captain Bob (Omoo)

[highbury57]

3dLamia
7d Walpole
9a Marian Yule GissingNew Grub Street

[lashley]

thanks all-have 1a now

[highbury57]

I haven’t. Might you pass on a pointer?

[CrikeyMoses]

^ Highbury, in the unlikely event that you're still stuck (there's still a few days before the deadline), it's GENT (chap) + LEMAN (old lover) + BROWN (bay - a brownish colour, sometimes describing horses of that colour).