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gawdelpus

24th November 2023, 17:41
Dissipated vacant hero is top role in a play in the style of Chekhov (7,8)

Letters so far - C???A?N/???T???O

Thank you.
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gawdelpus

24th November 2023, 18:07
I think the O is wrong…
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jono

24th November 2023, 18:09
Captain Shotover (from Heartbreak House) - anagram
…but your O looks wrong
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gawdelpus

24th November 2023, 18:10
Thanks, I just realised that and entered it. :)
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gawdelpus

24th November 2023, 18:35
Another…

This is not as great, in volume published twice, once in Slough (10)

Letters I’m fairly sure of -
?U?S?O?T??

Ta
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jono

24th November 2023, 19:05
Outshouted (not as great in volume)
“Out” x2 and “shed” (to slough, as in cast off)
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gawdelpus

24th November 2023, 19:55
Final clues…

A rostrum is where you might learn to conduct (3) R?M

A novelist writing flipping newspapers, in part (1,1,4) ?/S/?A?P

Thanks
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jono

24th November 2023, 20:42
A rostrum is a ram (naval - pointy thing on the front of a ship) also Royal Academy of Music, RAM.
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gawdelpus

24th November 2023, 20:43
Excellent, thank you!
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geeker

24th November 2023, 21:19
T. S. GARP

Real blast from the past: read that novel late '70s and had forgotten about it!
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