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[yellow11]

last few-help please
1a lord chancellor subject to fire hazard 5 K???K
2d kimball,father of kimball 5 ??A?A
8d fashion introduced by sir walter raleigh 5 S?Y?E style?
16d monet subject composed of barbarously beautiful components from hopkins? 9
H?R?T?C?S gerard manley?
thanks-explanations welcomed

[swannbaker]

O'Hara .

[johnalex]

8d yes STYLE (book title by Raleigh)

http://manybooks.net/...hwetext97style10.html

[johnalex]

1a KAPOK ? (highly flammable but why lord chancellor?)

[Sandy-Wroe]

16d Haystacks?

[Pentalpha8]

16d haystacks ( of which Monet painted quite a lot )
Gerard Manley Hopkins poem Hurrahing in Harvest mentions" barbarous in beauty the stooks (haystacks ) arise "

[yellow11]

many thanks-but still stuck 1a-now K?O>K-am thinking knock cos G and s opera has lord chancellor saying knock wood but it's a bit tenuous

[aeronut]

Krook "Lord Chancellor" and ragman and fire hazard in Bleak House

[poetaster]

1a Krook
Krook ( Bleak House ) Drunken and illiterate proprietor of a rag and bottle shop. Known as the 'Lord Chancellor', Krook collects court documents. A will, instrumental in the Jarndyce and Jarndyce court case, is found among his holdings by Mr Smallweed who inherits Krook's possessions after his demise by spontaneous combustion.