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broken down car stood needing a tune up (8) s?or????. 11 across.
10 d special japanesre titles lifted poems (7) s???e?s.
13a desperate chap getting to grips with one literary goddess (4) ????.

Scordatura is a system of re-tuning violons etc. used by Biber etc. - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scordatura
A violin so tuned might be SCORDATO?

sonnets???

DIAN (Desperate DAN around I) might be a literary form of Diana?

Hi Chrise is right on all 3

Sonnets is tennos (reversed Japanese title) + s

Dian is in Chambers as an alternative to Diana

Thanks dja - I certainly hadn't come across the Japanese term.

sincere thanks for bright lights.S.