Tls 998

[flocker]

Last one and very stuck.
2 dn: Young painter of 18 retires from her world (5).
M?I?E (I think).

[shoota]

What is 18 please?

[Mamyalynne]

18a he was closely connected with Derbyshire, we hear, at his Sussex school ??

[shoota]

Ty Ma'am, (none the wiser.....)

[Mamyalynne]

nor me

[sandyRoe]

Jennings was a chum of Darbishire in the Jennings books. Don't know if that's any help

[shoota]

The Jennings/Darbishire clue is shown as being from TLS 997, http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1287972.html

Is this question misnumbered or is there another '18' that would help us?

[Mamyalynne]

I do apologise if I sent you down a blind alley, never noticed the puzzle number.

[shoota]

We need Flocker really.......

[Zabadak]

18 is "Williams". Still none then wiser.

[shoota]

Thank you Zab!

[shoota]

Mario (Testino) Prince Williams portrait painter
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw204247/Prince-Harry-Prince-Charles-Prince-William-Duke-of-Cambridge

[flocker]

sorry... yes, as Zabadak says, 18 refers to another clue referring to Brendan Behan's play Hostage to which the answer is Williams

[shoota]

Is Mario a possible answer?
I don't like it much.....

[Zabadak]

Can't be. The M?I?E is solid.

[shoota]

OK - ty.

[NC4BBQ]

Consider MOISE--Tennessee Williams's Moise and the World of Reason includes Moise. a young painter who announces her retirement from "the world of reason";

[carlyle4]

I simply cannot seem able to get close to what in the world Porter's Goat is. it must be staring me in the face, because nobody else has submitted a query. darn!

[NC4BBQ]

W. S. Porter ("O. Henry") wrote "The Cisco Kid."