Inquisitor 1261

[Ripper]

I'm on the final leg (I think!)
Can anyone confirm that when one fills the "coloured" square, the crossing clue becomes a non-word (if you see what I mean!)
Also I need help with:
53across Festive food table enthralls very large Eurppean (8) CH_RT
and
43down Unfasten knot once rid of holes (7) _NIT
Thanks in advance

[x_word_fan]

53 is CHAROSET - I am still missing 43 and also 30 if you have that.

[snikwal]

I make 30 manille

[snikwal]

and 43 unpinkt. Notice they contain the colours anil and pink respectively. Hope this helps.

[Ripper]

Now to find my daughter's old felt tips!(she's 24 but they must be somewhere!)
Thanks for you help, hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

[Indy-trier]

Hi Everyone. I have the theme and most of the colours but I need 17d, 32d, 48a and 24a to finish. Any tips please?
MERRY CHRISTMAS and thanks for all the help you've given m this year!

[Neveracrossword]

I got most of this done - I no longer have the paper, but if you gave the clues, I might be able to help.

[Indy-trier]

Thank you Neveracrossword. As soon as I posted my question I actually solved 32d and 44a, but am still stuck on the other two. 17d is "outdated society match" (5) and 24a is "Return to examine sound flat" (4) - PL?P. I considered STEAM for 17d but don't have any idea why!

[Neveracrossword]

I had 'steam' - all I could think of was 's' for society' and 'team' for 'match' (I was thinking of co-ordinating clothes, for example, not a football match. I didn''t really like it as an answer, but I couldn't get anything else.)
For the other one, I had 'plap' - it's 'palp'(short for 'palpate') backwards. I've seen that used before to mean examine.
Sorry I've had nothing definitive to give you!

[Indy-trier]

Thank you Nacw! I have 2 other answers that sort of work but I need to confirm (or otherwise). I have RAPE for 38a and PA(r)ING for 39d. I'm just trying to tidy up!

[Neveracrossword]

I don't remember 'rape' or 'paring'! I think that second one might have been 'coring'.