Game 28, round 1 lines

[a_d_medievalist]

1. Three across, five letters, "Today I hop backwards".
   
2. I can think of a thousand things I'd rather be doing on a Friday night that bathing a cat.
   
3. By James Mackintosh Qwilleran.
   
4. Jim Qwilleran was working on an article for The Daily Fluxion when his cat Kao K’o Kung, a Siamese of usually noble bearing, took exception to the bookcase, and Qwilleran felt his own luxuriant mustache begin to tingle.
   
5. Jim Qwilleran, whose name had confounded typesetters and proofreaders for two decades, arrived fifteen minutes early for his appointment with the managing editor of the Daily Fluxion
   
6. There was a scruffy-looking Siamese cat on Qwilleran's front lawn, and it appeared to be reading the morning newspaper.

Poll

Votes due Friday at 8 p.m. London time