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Back to this one from a couple of nights ago and need some fresh brains as mine's stale:

ACROSS CLUE:

Poet hard to decipher, for the most part(6).

C - A - - -

And crossing clue(4th Down / 5th Across letter):

DOWN CLUE: Two colleges appear in table (8)

- E - - - O - E

PEMBROKE

(George)Crabbe - port.

Crabbed–adjective

3.
hard to understand; intricate and obscure.
4.
difficult to read or decipher, as handwriting.

Crambo?

Crambo?

Sorry Sammy , I should have explained. There is a PEMBROKE college OXFORD and one of the same name in CAMBRIDGE. Pembroke is also a type of table.

oops
(George)Crabbe - poet not port.

Many thanks, all. Mamya came up with PEMBROKE the other night but we couldn't see how it fitted all the elements of the clue. Didn't realise there was one in each Oxbridge place.

Excellent!

Yes, thanks trevor, I knew you meant Crabbe the poet. I'd been thinking of CLARE and CLARKE and trying to work something for either of those, especially CLARE who used unorthodox spelling and word forms and so might have been hard to decipher.