Mr Al-Khapoun's Christmas Quiz, 2002: Clues.

1. An upright poet, though you might not think so.

2. Scotland also produced the author.

3. Whether this itself is a translation is disputed, but this is in fact the original.

4. The speaker's omniscience is proverbial.

5. The title of the book is, beyond all reasonable argument, accurate.

6. One version.

7. The author's behaviour has been contrasted with that of the Fire Brigade.

8. Highly prized.

9. Somebody was famously married to somebody else of the same name.

10. Somebody else of the same name.