reversed "( )" letters inserted; "_" letters deleted; "†" explicit in the clue Across 9a   {THE FOUNTAINHEAD} — anagram (edited) of FIND OUT A HEATHEN The Fountainhead [7] is a 1943 novel by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982). 10a   POE|TASTER — double definition, the second being cryptic; "second-rate writer" &