Inquisitor 1570

[Ripper]

There may be an additional letter in the wordplay & the across answers may be reversed -
1 across: Artillery is stored in excellent US research facility in recession (8) sorry not many letters EA?????? 48 across: Dickie's sister runs away from Fred in a flap (8, 2 words) DR?S?T?E 36 down: Fuss over $5 bill at the end (5, 2 words) ?D?IN
Why are some of the lights shaded i.e. top & bottom rows? (me being thick)
With the extra letters the only word I've found is "Different" otherwise I need some hints as to what it states please!
Thanks in advance

[saladdodger]

1a lab = research facility "is" is in there too ... can't parse the rest...
artillery s the defn N was extra
48a anagram of sister + fred F is extra
36d ad fin O from adO was extra

when your grid is filled and you start the shading it should become clear why it is shaded how it is ....
ask again if you are stuck

[Ripper]

Thank you saladdodger - I'll have another look!

[Ripper]

Me again saladdodger!
I'm having trouble with artillery, something tells me it's a reversed word possibly starting with balis... ? But my Chambers is not helping!
Also the first word of the description (I've obviously got something horribly wrong I have NE?RSTES and my last word I have as COLLOSS - I feel that might be colour)
Oh dear, I'm hopeless!

[roslyn251254]

1a is a themed one of the 10....yes it does start BALIS??? i used chambers word wizard to finish it off ....then it needs reversing for entry (Theme is GO WEST)

The extras give 8,6,9, 6 but the 8 and 6 are US spellings

Extra in 14a is i ...tha(i) inside nan giving nathan
Next is G from 15a ....progress = (g)oing ..doctor is MO ...combines to give mooing which is another of the 10

17a extra is H from (h)ad + na ...girl = DANA also one of the 10
not sure where the next 2 extras actually came from but they were B and O
Then an R from 22a g(r) ot (t)o...go to for the grid entry


the 6 letter word starts with S from 24a

The last 6 letters are C O L O R S...
C from 21d
O from 28d
L from 34d
O from ad(o) in 36d
R from 39d
S from 42d

[Ripper]

Thank you - that would have taken me an age to type!
I now assume that the middle two collumns are shaded, will any colour do i.e. red and blue?
Thanks again for all your help, I hate being defeated by these pesky Inquisitors which I have a love/hate relationship with!!!

[dannyk13]

48a.Dress tie?

[roslyn251254]

Ripper ... you have the shading wrong.....

If you have a full grid look at the letters in the top left corner (not the one sin shaded cells) WNAT
GNIO
HS

An anagram of these letters gives .....
Now look at a map ...and you will see you need to shade in the whole of the grid leaving those already shaded cells. Any colours will do but not the same 2 clolours next to each other....

[Ripper]

thanks roslyn251254, I hated geography at school!