Tls 1490

[tedsgran]

26a Mayo novelist I introduced to Arundhati? (6) R?O?E?

[Neveracrossword]

Sally Rooney, the young Irish novelist, was born in County Mayo...

[brainiac]

ONE inside ROY - Arundhati's surname

[JJ109]

(Sally) Rooney ?? - can't parse

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Brainiac and JJ.

[Neveracrossword]

Sorry, JJ, I might have to take my 'thanks' back...I didn't spot that you'd only got as far as I had!

[JJ109]

No problem NAC - I wonder how Matakari will get on with this week's Speccie! I certainly thought it was friendly!

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks for being so understanding, JJ. Yes, I mentioned to Matakari that he'd probably like Cheesecracker's puzzle. I hope he blasts his way through it, it wasn't tricky at all (but good fun).

[tedsgran]

Thank you all!

[Neveracrossword]

Tedsgran, glad we could help.
PS Hope you didn't mind the digression into the Spectator puzzle.

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

I’ve found this bad-boy to be much harder than recent offerings. It may be time for me to hang up my biro in the TLS.

I have one clue left -

Mark Antony’s friend died with a secret unexpectedly (8)

Letters I have - ?E?C?T?S

[roslyn251254]

anagram of d a secret....Dercetas...shakespeare...

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Thanks roslyn. I’d isolated the letters in the anagram but couldn’t work it out. And my Shakespeare is *awful*