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18a casting agent quickly supplied bird-god7-5
????E?N-?A?E? pattern maker?
23a gets close attention in new society 5 starts n
25a line put to sex clubs songre clergy?8 ???A????
26a indian state supporter reveals hair on chinny-chin-chin 6 ????E?
27a pulse and grains for dante's guide 8 ???T????
vergil? thanks

23a n ear s

27 BEAT RICE

18 is Pattern maker - PAT = quickly, TERN + maker, God.

25a Vicarial; VI, Latin 6 (sex), aria + L (ine) - particularly abstruse, I think.

26 Goa + Tee, supporter , goat's beard.

27 Beatrice; beat + rice (grains).

many thanks-though virgil was his guide not beatrice!

The guide who leads Dante to just one step away from contemplating God in The Divine Comedy was Beatrice Portinari