28 April 2016

Crossword by Boffles

20th Century Lit.

Across

    1  A Blair (not Tony) who painted a grim picture of life in 1984 (6)

    4  Olivia Manning wrote this trilogy (6)

    9  Corfiot family (7)

  10  Location of 1dn (2,3)

  12  Subject of a William Golding novel and possibly a phallic symbol (5)

  13  Author of ‘Vile Bodies’ (6,5)

  18  Martial figure frequently the subject of novels, even if unknown (7)

  20  Destination of an E M Forster novel (5)

  22  ‘But since he stood for England and knew what England ……, unless you give him bacon, you must not give him beans’   Chesterton (5)

  23  Scene of the action of 3dn’s book (7)

  24  …… Trefusis, lover of Vita Sackville -West and the inspiration for ‘Orlando’ and Lady Montdore (6)

 

Down

    1  Hero of Hemingway story (3,3)

    2  ‘The …….of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living’   Auden (5)

    3  Harper who wrote mockingbird blockbuster (3)

    5  Author of an unusual guide for someone who begs lifts from passing cars (5)

    6  If you can keep your head, you will identify him (7)

    7  Canonical work of existentialism, not the feeling brought on by reading it (6)

    8  A 9ac wrote such a quartet (11)

  11  Robert Graves waved goodbye to …… that (3)

  14  Malcolm Lowry wrote about seething emotions beneath a Mexican one (7)

  15  A 9ac wrote about these and his family menagerie (7)

  16  Big Three Sci-Fi writer (6)

  17  Greene’s MI6 agent was based here (6)

  19  3dn’s book dealt with that of racism (5)

  21  Male, we hear, wrote about one in Venice (5)