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[Gissing]

6A First Broadway offering might bring a great deal of money (4). I think it is BUMP, but why?

[Tilly2]

Could it be bung? I don't know why, though.

[factor-fiction]

Bomb

[factor-fiction]

First letters of Broadway Offering Might Bring

[Tilly2]

Well done, factor.

[Gissing]

Thank you

[Gissing]

Help as well, please, with 11A Mature Capek protagonist (5) I?A?O

[Tilly2]

imago?

[Tilly2]

..............that's just a guess!

[bibblebub]

yes, the brothers wrote The Insect Play http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/feature/4043/The_Insect_Play

[Gissing]

Thank you

[NC4BBQ]

I had thought "bomb" meant a flop, but I see now the OED explains: "A success (esp. in entertainment); also U.S., a failure." Covers all possibilities.