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10a Care about railway praised as holy in poem 6 h?r?e?
6d Long old Scots beam broken by English 5 g?e?n
31d Poet's black book confined in eternity 4 e???
28d For C17 writers guts is to accept, barely, mark of
the Beast 5 wh???
Thanks for help

6, Grein.

10a - heryed ( heed round ry for railway )

10, Heryed?

31, Ebon.

28, Wea(r)mb.

Last two.12a sweetheart cannae-can wife? D?NH.27a eg.McGonnagalls dreary old work as an author-rejects it O?RIE. OWRIE??. Thanks in advance.

Owrie is a Scots word for dreary.
O for old.
An author would "wr(it)e".
Giving "owrie".

Cannae is Scots for cannot.
Downa is Scots for cannot/cannae.
Can wife. Remove w for wife from downa and you have "dona" for sweetheart.