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Thanks all for those - always satisfying to know why and answer is what it is.

Anybody have any thoughts on the two Hemingway related clues?

4. so long = a farewell; wings = arms;
so long + wings = A Farewell (to) Arms

Would that be it?

3. erne = seabird??? That's only paltry offering I can make.
I'm dying to see one of the real experts here provide an explanation.

Thanks for your thoughts Jolan - I was thinking along the same lines for 'A Farewell To Arms' but just can't parse it completely and the other one has me completely stumped!

5) last = past= since + rely for bank. sincerely word in letter.

3. Writer of Campbell's Seabird Cookbook. Answer: Ernest Hemingway.

Mike Campbell is a character in The Sun Also rises, so "Writer of Campbell" could be the definition.
Then it could be "Ernes The Ming Way"?

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Gosh, ab - that's clever lateral thinking! Still don't get it though....

Campbell is a character by the writer Ernest Hemingway. Ernes are seabirds. Ming is a way to cook,
"Ernes the Ming way" would be the title of a seabird cookbook and spells the name of the writer of Campbell, so "Writer of Campbell is Seabird Cookbook" is Ernest Hemingway.

Thanks, ab, I can stop puzzling over it now! Really Dean Mayer (the setter) is in a world of his own!