tls 906

[walgraver]

2 left
4A - Ishmaelia, to boot, say (8) I have ?T?I?P?? - obviously Waugh's SCOOP but I can't work it out
8D - Short reply yet to come back from one writing sub rosa (6) I have ??S?E?

[atrollope]

Vestey?

[atrollope]

Author/Scribe working under the Rose _ _ _ TEY..do you think?

[WAZZARD]

could it be Ethiopia

[WAZZARD]

Yes that's it - about a juornalist in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia)

[atrollope]

http://superiorne.com...dstone-ladyvestey.htm
Lady Vestey

[WAZZARD]

could 8D be hissed - sub rosa ?

[walgraver]

OK - I think Ethiopia is right for 4A but 8D cannot therefore be vestey or hissed - any ideas ?

[atrollope]

which letter clashes,please?

[walgraver]

8D A?S?E?

[slaney]

What are your letters now for 8d?
Anstey?
http://www.jrank.org/...s-Anstey-Guthrie.html

[atrollope]

Anstey

[atrollope]

well done slaney...Ans. ...short reply...what took so long...D"oh!

[slaney]

But not a well known (to me at any rate) writer :-)

[mra1]

Anstey wrote Vice Versa - the story of a boy and his very pompous father who changed places by wishing on a stone - read it in the early 1950's - perhaps you are too young to know about it although there was a TV version as I recall