Ev 1362

[saladdodger]

Across clues contain an extra word..
There are 7 clashes in 7 cells so crossing letters may not be correct for the clue...

3d Speaking together of old queen beset by smut locally (8) COI?????
14d First East London Man leaves W indian okra dish containing innards of gharial and a deer (8)

5a Hedge new game between finalists with no hint of promotion (6, 2 words) LA? / O?? ...looks like LAY OFF (= hedge) but can't parse ...FF could be the finalists??
29a Patrons like poker work as it used to be in nameless Shetland island (5) I??S?
Unst for the shetland isle ?

[Cloverjo]

Pomona, the Dukes are the Dukes of Hazzard.

[Neveracrossword]

I've got 'not' as extra, so that I could lose the Had in Hazzard. ('had lost').

[pomona]

Thanks cloverjo ... i see why it's razz now

[Neveracrossword]

PM, Colly's in Chambers - but not with the 'smut' meaning.

[ProfessorMaisie]

It's in mine Neveracrossword - 1st entry: '...n soot, smut (archaic or dialect)...

[DocHH]

The variant spelling in ODE is for the answer to 6d. Pound is given in Bradfords as a 2 letter word, and stake is a Betting Term. There are no clashes in the light's entry.

[ProfessorMaisie]

'mangled' is the extra in 26.
Acorn is in Chambers with a copyright symbol - it's to do with classifying houses.

[ProfessorMaisie]

6dn Is also in Chambers DocHH - both spellings.

[vetuste_ennemi]

VE to himself: it's Sunday.

What happened to Saturday?

[ProfessorMaisie]

vetuste-ennemi - start counting that text, it'll take your mind off the calendar.

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, PM - I got waylaid by the first Collie! I should have carried on down the page.


Thanks, DocHH. It doesn't make any difference to my grid, but it's nice to know which was the OED word!

[Neveracrossword]

PM, I'm getting dizzy! Thanks for the 6 D information. DocHH, thanks anyway.

[ProfessorMaisie]

pomona - sorry, it's the wordplay, not the definition you wanted -
'COR' is 10 'baths' (old Hebrew measures) inside A N(ew) with 'complex' extra.

[pomona]

Thanks Prof ... all done now.

[professorplum13]

i have finished ..apart from the clashes ...can't understand which version to select? why?

[Neveracrossword]

Look closely at the last word given from the extra letters....

[ProfessorMaisie]

Have you got the message from the middle letters professor plum? Think about 'poor' as a crossword device.

[ProfessorMaisie]

Neveracrossword's hint should focus the mind!

[professorplum13]

I have GUR as the last word ??

[professorplum13]

but of course it should be gEr so i get it now!!!