Around the perimeter starting at one corner run two lines of a verse (ten words). Two unclued lights give the name of the author (in her formal style); other unclued lights give one association with each of the adjectives in the quotation.
Across
10 Smile conceals a natural character (5)
11 Eastern exercise in goodness is vain (5)
14 Clever Scots start to get on (4)
15 I left flying Gulf Air, not rich (6)
17 A few lines, and three more, including English correspondence (8)
20 Growing attached, is less easy at first to dislodge (7)
22 Old jingle about this ruler (4)
24 A conquest of Zeus?...
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