Cryptic crossword No 511
Thu 23 Jun 2022, set byMethuselah
Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 4th May 2021. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Perhaps King is rejected; likewise, the odd bits of Pullman novel (7)
- Salacious dancing leaving us out? That's not very friendly (7)
- Instrument with which old boy regularly trimmed novel (4)
- First section of novel copper initially labelled as rather peculiar (10)
- Defraud a character shipwrecked in novel for seafood (6)
- Independent parliamentarian to back hospital department without effect (8)
- Hotel to show president embracing reading? One may go into shock … (9)
- … Novel abandoned, he hit "Tweet" (5,5)
- Novel Methuselah's written about himself? (5)
- Informal academic and university fellows taking time with special papers (9)
- Possibly be artful as a novelist (8)
- Talk of young affirming their truth enrages right-wing leaders (6)
- Where suits might be heard… or certain cases? (10)
- Insiders made money in jazz age Fitzgerald novel (4)
- Comedian's debut novel after leaving the Fringe read aloud and reviewed? (7)
- Pitch a second Plath novel (7)
Down
- Novel about second wife being turned queen by dictating Boris? (7)
- Substance ultimately covered by jam? (5)
- Fresher wants a little paperclip piercing (7)
- Short novel acquired by agent (6)
- Short novel repeatedly describing love for women's footwear (5,4)
- Opposing sides on Armstrong's cycling disgrace (7)
- Novel's pathetic protagonist losing a ring but winning old cash (13)
- Endlessly greedy duck caught rowing team and coach again (2-7)
- Modernist novel which introduces a certain Bloom (7)
- Doctor Seuss' extremely loopy novel (7)
- Royal starts to moan about libel after article produced by Heat (7)
- Very European city on the coast is novel's deadly location (6)
- See 16a
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