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[mikey4444]

Find this bumper Easter Araucaria very tough !

20d (A)..."Man's name in field with island saint, but one with house abroad"

The B answer is HELENA but I did have MAISON for the A grid ( House in French) but that now interfers with TOSHIBA for 22a (A).

Not getting on with the WAGNER B grid much at all. 1d "Butler nearly fixed car with oil, with no need to answer settler's attempt to raise some resilience"

I think the B grid is STABILISED, But don't have have a clue about grid B.

HELP !

[iminoz]

22a is thibault,

B grid for 1D is rhetorical

[iminoz]

Sorry should be thibaut

[mikey4444]

Thanks but THIBAULT has 8 letters and the clues only has seven spaces.

[mikey4444]

Thanks. TOSHIBA came from Another Place...I shall making a complaint !

[humbersloop]

mike, I took one look at this and my heart sank tbh

[mikey4444]

But I like the Opera, especially Verdi and Wagner, so I thought, well this isn't going to be too bad now is it ? That was at 0730 on Saturday, but now I am completely beggered !

Actually not beggered but if I put what I really mean, AB has a strange habit of changing my text !

[hwfa]

Please, why is it Thibaut?

[roslyn251254]

He is a page in Don Carlos

[hwfa]

Yes but what has it got to do with an electronics company?

[iminoz]

To(-os)hiba(+ut)

Apparantly ut means note in crosswordspeak.
I can't believe the amount of time I spent on this crossword!

[hwfa]

Thank you. Chambers dictionary gives, for "ut": "A syllable representing the first note of the scale, now generally superseded by doh".