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To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

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Literary characters

mrscake | 19:30 Wed 07th Feb 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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17 Potteries girl sounds truthful (4,10)
56 Eliot's lady from the sixteenth day of the third month (8,8)
79 With grapes and water out of reach, he chewed sultana after tea, we hear (8)
99 He mixed ropes and crust to fit his bed (10)
Thank you!

Times 8/02/07

fredderick fosyth novel featuring the fictous arfican nation of

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postmanthe

79 tantalus

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Argee2

17 Anna Tellwright (Anna of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett).

Argee2

99. Procrustes

postmanthe

99 procrustes

Argee2

56. Dorothea Casaubon from Middlemarch by George Eliot.

Ont-ice

Dorothea Casaubon (Eliot's Middlemarch).

jodder

79 tantalus

mrscake

Question Author

Thanks everybody, I can send that quiz in now.

Pea Brain

Hello mrscake!!
As you have now finished the quiz perhaps you would be kind enough to help me with .....
83. Courtly shepherdess on the Circle - but no line (5)
I would be eternally grateful !!!

mrscake

Question Author

My daughter, who has a degree in English Literature, gave me Circe as the answer to that one, which seems obvious from circle without a line, but she didn't explain the courtly shepherdess reference. Would you like me to ask her?

Pea Brain

Circe was my initial idea but on investigating her she turned out to be a sorceress not a shepherdess. Hey ho !!!
Thanks mrscake.

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