Tls Help Please-It Seems Incredibly Hard This Week!

[lashley]

9a in victorian verse she seems dead in criminal cell-a hoax 8 C???I?E?
12a the ego in me is ridiculous in size 10 ?I???E?N??
17a indian writer and composer meeting a fool with a kind of intelligence 5,5 ??I??/?E???
21a animal enclosure with many places to sleep where ratty lives 8,starts R
please parse-thanks

[Lie-in King]

9a Claribel - 'a rib' (a hoax, in) anag 'cell'

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45320/claribel

[bobbinwales]

eighteenmo

[Captain2]

12a Eighteenmo - I think - a paper size (anagram of the ego in me)

[Lie-in King]

12a Eighteenmo - anag 'the ego in me'

[bobbinwales]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/eighteenmo

[TheWinner]

21a. ringbolt ???
animal enclosure=ring
and bolt (hole) ?????

[Canary42]

17a I guess is something SENSE

[Canary42]

But SIXTH doesn't fit neither can I parse it

[Lie-in King]

17a Anita Desai - 'a nit Ades (Thomas) A(rtificial) I(ntelligence)' (?)

[Lie-in King]

21a Reedbeds - 'ree (enclosure) D (500; many) beds' (?)

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ree

[lashley]

many thanks all