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[yellow11]

last few
16d pianist blanches in new composition 8 ?C?N????
10a a medium performance of blithe spirit 6 ?E?A?E
24a natty sort of woodsman(despite leather stocking) 6
??M?P?
26a feature of coleridge's place of confinement 6
??N?E? st or nicholas
thanks

[novalis]

10a - Hecate

[dr b]

24, bumppo (Natty Bumppo character in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales)

[novalis]

24a Bumppo

[Rollo]

16d Schnabel

[dr b]

16 schnabel (anag)

[yellow11]

thanks all-have now got 26a-thought 16d was anagram of blanches but couldn't get further-also didn't see connection betwen hecate aand rest of clue,apart from her being a spirit

[Coppins Crew]

10. across is seance

[yellow11]

you're right coppins-had written pandulph wrong going down!

[poetaster]

26a: linden

Coleridge: This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
linden n. a lime tree