famous characters from novels

[elliefe]

(1)certainly sounds like a boost for a buckinghamshire town(6,7)
(2)this older sibling becomes a dictator (3,7)
(3)to rid an orchestra of all traces of soap?(9)
(4)confused lover add one and finish in an inextricable tangle (6,5)
(5) plain not purl? then drop the 18thin some syrup (4,6)
(6)stalin or brand could join mao on a long one (2,5)
(7)mixed sets find what could be the location of a kentucky horse race (4,11)
(8) a bashful means of raising barges (7)
(9) shes a fit companion for a lord in a berkshire town(4,9)

[shaneystar2]

8 Shylock

[shaneystar2]

6 Jo March ..Little Women

[kettledrum]

9. Lady Bracknell

[shaneystar2]

2 Could be Big Brother from 1984 by Orwell

[elliefe]

thanks you are all so clever I thought this would fox you but less than 5 mins and answers are there well done!!!!
I have one more question the clue is she lost her Parrot we hear i thought that was jo march same letters for answer

[shaneystar2]

7 Tess Durbeyfield....from Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

[shaneystar2]

well Jo is Joe Stalin and Mao TseTung was the Long March
So that makes it Jo march ..well that's the way I see it !
Wiil have a think about the parrot !

[shaneystar2]

I can't recall Jo having a parrot in Little Women !

[kettledrum]

1. Philip Marlowe - Raymond Chandler's detective

[elliefe]

I think4 is oliver twist

[shaneystar2]

Yes I agree Lover with I Oliver (anagram) and tangle Twist

[kettledrum]

The parrot one - Mr Polly ( H.G.Wells) - Missed 'er Polly

[kettledrum]

Could no (5) have something to do with No 18 on your original quiz sheet? What is the answer to no 18 ?

[elliefe]

the answer to 18 on my quiz sheet is silas marner any help?

[shaneystar2]

5 Jane Marple ..(.Plain )Jane Maple (syrup) + R the eighteenth letter of the alphabet

[swannbaker]

3 ought to be Rochester , removing the East end of orchestra , but it doesn't quite work .

[kettledrum]

Thanks elliefe - I'll think about it. It's a pretty tough quiz.

[paulineward]

swannbaker..could it be removing the east end 'the a' and adding ER - soap?

[kettledrum]

Pauline - Late Sunday night without you and Kayakamina doing the Week's crossword together is just not the same! Let's hope it arrives tomorrow.

[paulineward]

Yes kettledrum...hope you are free tomorrow evening! Lots of sorting out to do in the morning..well in a few hours!...BT and The Week!.
Out in the afternoon..early evening, so you be ready..if the mag arrives! So sad to think I will be going to the crossword first!!