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38d Something touched on in Ecclesiates - pretty good book.
I have 'Vanity Fair' which I know is a book, but what has Ecclesiastes got to do with it?
And do I have the right reasoning behind 56a See cold alcoholic drink being imbibed? This could be it. = springy: spy + gin + r being this could be it.

vanity fair

I thought it was scrumpy - spy around c rum?

http://bible.cc/ecclesiastes/11-8.htm

I have Scrumpy for 56a

smidge is correct i put scrumpy

If you look at "Ecclesiastes" in Wikipedia you will see references to vanity hence VANITY in the answer. Pretty good is FAIR which, together, gives the book name.

But if it's scrumpy, what do you have for 24d - this give me a definite N?

the author's surname ends with M

24 Down is SOMERSET MAUGHAM (anagram of MAMMOTH SEA URGE)

Silly me - all these years I hac thought it was Somerset MaughaN - but of course that's not the anagram. Scrumpy it is!