TLS Crossword 736

[Coppins Crew]

Sorry, folks!
13 ac. Lame journeyman Rickie (6) E???O?
14 down. Provenance of Hardy's power? (8) ??O?I?E?
24 down. "Willoughby's eye had _ed the attitude of a beaten child" (John Collier, Defy the Foul Fiend) (5) K?D?K. Looks like KODAK, but I can't trace the reference.

[JUNKMAN]

13 a Elliot

[SpiderPig]

I can't find the reference either - but it's a valid word

n. Kodaking.]
To photograph with a kodak; hence, to describe or
characterize briefly and vividly. [obsolescent]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

It also fits with the other words I have - rocket, amsterdam and The Caretaker

[SpiderPig]

14d Laodicea

[Coppins Crew]

Thank you for Elliot, Junkman. Could you give me an explanation, please?

Thank you too to Spiderpig, but I think you'll find your 'rocket 'should be 'ticket'. (Google 'Burroughs, ticket' for his book.) But let me know if you have other ideas! Many thanks once more.

[JBW123]

Paula POWER is the heroine of Hardy's A Laodicean. Laodicea is a place (hence 'provenance').

[JBW123]

Rickie Elliot in Forster's The Longest Journey.

[SpiderPig]

Thanks Coppins Crew, if I remember right I was thinking of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Science Fiction - that's how I came up with Rocket. - it also explains why I was having trouble with16d, I've been out celebrating my wins at Aintree yesterday, so I'll leave the rest of the crossword till tomorrow !