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9d) Sycophantic English and French books turned up (7)
S - R - I - E

I'm thinking it's Servile = Sycophantic
The word turned up would be ELIVRES
English = E

That would leave - Livres which is old French money - Which would work if it said French bucks - Bucks being slang for money

So can't grasp the word play with French books

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

Hi Les;

perhaps the way a Frenchman would pronounce books - = bucks?? A stretch I know...

I should pay more attention!

LIVRES is french for Books!

livres (Fr): books

Oh thats great, cheers guys

I did have a mini French dictionary, but haven't seen it for months and didn't think of trying it on Google but now have seen that their are plenty of translation sites, I will check them in future