Yahoo Finance Annotated solutions for Prize 28,548
Across
9 araucaria AURA (anag) + C(irca)/ARIA
10 Ouida A/D<I>UO (rev) [pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé]
11 Allen chALLENge [Woody Allen]
12 Acton Bell ACT ON BELL [pseudonym of Anne Brontë]
14 Any Rand A + NY (rev) + RAND [d. 1982]
17 alias A + SAIL (rev)
19 cue Q (hom) [le Carrë MI6 character]
20 model MODEL [one who poses]
21 artists (w)AR/(i)T/(l)ISTS [Jacques-Louis David; Augustus John]
22 Brendan B<REND>AN
24 Mark Twain TWAIN after MARK (Gospel)
26 Lewis CS Lewis & Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), both Oxford dons
28 grant/Grant double def (but Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach)
29 disembody M (le Carrë’s MI6 head) in SIDED BOY (anag)
Down
1 gaga/Gaga double def A/GAG (rev)
2 gallic GALL/1/C(hapter)
3 scenarists N(ame) in ACTRESS IS (anag)
4 create CR<(plum)E>ATE
5 last name LAST + E(nglish)/MAN (rev)
6,13across John le Carré author’s pseudonym on all his spy book covers
7 vineyard IN AD VERY (anag)
8 Paul Pope PAUL [six so far, but only two JOHN PAULs]
13 Lhasa L<HAS>A [Los Angeles]
15 nom de plume Molière is pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
16 Dylan Bob Dylan took his name from Dylan Thomas
18 internal N(ame) N(ame) I LATER (anag)
19 costards (tinne)D in CO-STARS
22 Banksy BANKS + Y (unknown)
23 Dowson DOW<SO>N [Ernest Dowson, d. 1900]
24 mega A/GEM (rev)
25 Tito IT(rev)/TO
27 stye ST/(trick)Y/(puzzl)E [Paul and Brendan are both Saints]
