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I've 'finished' but I am not quite sure of two words. The loner one in the top right hand corner: the only thing I can see is SADDO. And the absolute sound in the bottom right hand corner, where all I can see is plumb, thumb, or rhumb. Cannot justify any of them.

I've got saddo (odd as in reverse)

23a is plumb meaning true vertical as in plumb line

23d is a quote from Poe (I think)

So what's the quote. 'All poets are fools?'
Can't find it in my book of quotations. The
drugs are there for the cryptic and I hadn't questioned the definition.

I think it is the other way round i.e. "all fools are poets"

Is it not both in the same quote, from (I think) Edgar Allan Poe?

Apologies didn't see jws' mention of Poe above. Just checked and the quote is -"All fools are poets; this the Prefect feels; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools"

Thank you JWS and AB. My Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has let me down this time. Fraid I don't follow the quote anyway. What does the Latin bit mean?

"Undistributed middle" - a term for a kind of logic mistake.