Sunday Express Crusader

[SuperSid]

I'm stuck on the last few clues.

1)Light piece of music (9): B _ _ _ I _ _ _E

2) Footwear item (7): _ _ _ _ O _ T

3) Disreputable person (7): _ _ _ _ _ _ E

4) Blemish or stain (5): L _ _ _ T

5) American novelist (6, 9): E _ N _ S _ / _ H _ _ _ E _ _ _ Y

6) Slang term for thieves (3, 6): T _ _ / _ _ _ V _ _

7) Female prophets (9): _ _ E _ E _ S _ S

Thanks!

[gen2]

6 = Tea Leaves (Rhyming Slang)

[Clanad]

7) Seeresses

[jeanyb]

Could No.2 be GUMBOOT?

[johnalex]

1. Bagatelle  (Change your "I")

5. Ernest Hemingway

6. Tea Leaves

[johnalex]

3. Lowlife

[grannyg]

 

  No4 is taint

[jeanyb]

4) Taint ?

[johnalex]

4. Yes, Taint is correct (I think the full clue was "It's not a blemish or stain" or words to that effect, ie a pun on "it aint")

[grannyg]

  2001 edition The Chambers Dictionary. 
  taint n a stain or blemish

[johnalex]

Hi grannyg  -  I think jeanyb was querying 'Taint' as a mismatch for "L???T" (Supersid needs to change his first letter).