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1a - Character of Eliot's ode to a herb, oddly
absorbing piece (14, two words)

??R???????????

7th letter is E

??R???E???????

I ve got it thank you.

A character from Middlemarch.

Can anyone help with the following, please?
ACROSS
11 Scattered corn, thus covering earth in enclosures for poultry ( 9, hyphened ): H????????
16 Sly look about a Scottish storyteller ( 5 ): ??E?R
21 Disorderly retreat, losing out ( 7 ): ????E??
25 Worry endlessly about refrigerant ( 5 ): ????N

DOWN:
1 cry feebly, wanting money ( 6 ): D?????

Thanks!

11 hen-courts? (anagram) Don't know what they are, though!

25 halon is a rerfigerant, but I don't see any parsing

25 freon?
fret on.

16a LEEAR

21a & 1d are 2 of the 5 specials - if you know the theme yet, that will help

25a FRE(T) ON

11 hen-courts is right. Chambers: an enclosure for fowl

Sudokulover -if it is not giving away too much could
tell us what are the other three of the 5 Specials ?

20 A, 24 A and 29 D.