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As ever, I have a couple to get, and pointers would be welcome
3d. For this writer articles of one sort or another must be creative (10) P-O-E---A-
I want it to be proverbial, but I don't know why
18a Men long for vegetable (6) O-A--- I'm thinking a word for men (names), plus an L or perhaps a verb, to long, giving the name of a vegetable?
52d Mountain height from which poetic river can be seen (4) -L-H. No idea of this.
As ever, any thoughts welcome. Thanks

pro me the an
or ache
alph

Oh, articles....me....the creative...pro.
The Alph one sparks some meory, but I wouldnt have got it, and the vegetable, no, I wouldnt know that either.
Many thanks for the assistance.

Hi smiffy,

In the military, OR means Other Ranks = men + ache = to long for
Orache is a leafy spinach type vegetable

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decreed:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

or something like that
R

decree, sorry

Smiffy,
40 across relates to post 4 above

Hi Rosalind
It was a pity that someone from Porlock arrived and interupted Coleridges poetic flow otherwise the poem would have been longer !!!!!!!1
YRS
THEA

Hi Thea
I think it sounds marvellous but is slightly short on sense! Prefer Wendy Cope myself
R