Iq 1767

[hankir]

All clues are normal.

1. Stupid American bored by a bit of fooling around (6)

26. Setter over touring Seychelles after upsetting treatment without drugs (6)

34. Reason for church in France to end up without power (4)

Thanks.

[ProfessorMaisie]

1 - 3 letter bird (a blue ???) is the US 'fool' + 3 letters for 'a' inside.
26 - name of the puzzle setter + 'O(ver)' around (reversed) 2 letters for Seychelles
A french word for the supreme being - 3 letters for 'end' + 'up' minus 'power'.

[ProfessorMaisie]

...just realised my 'blue' bird might give you the wrong idea, hankir - this one's first letter is in the first half of the alphabet.

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.
I have two to go.
I have the extra words and two layouts.
32a has all the crossers. Converting from layout A to B or B to A does not give me real words. What am I doing wrong?

[ProfessorMaisie]

I wrote them out one above the other -
QWE...
PYF...
and the first letter in 32 should be 'B' (going from the C of the 'Comb' answer) -
...C
...B
Only the grey, unclued entries need to be words - most of the grid contains non-words.

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.
I was looking at ? where Q is.

[ProfessorMaisie]

Did you miss the '...ignore punctuation' bit at the end of the preamble, hankir? I thought that was a a nice touch (in fact, I think the whole thing is pretty neat).

[hankir]

Hint on 1a for Listener?

[ProfessorMaisie]

That's the clue with no definition mentioned in the preamble -
3 letters for a (worthless) dog but minus its last letter goes after the usual 5 letters for 'bury' + OS ('bone') - then it's 4 letters for 'departed' on the end.

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.
Knew the two parts separately but the combined word is new.
The second part is relevant to the clashes.
Figured the song out.
I have one clash so know the symbol.

[ProfessorMaisie]

Yes, that's it.
I think this is another cleverly multi-layered puzzle - two in one weekend is pretty good going. I particularly like the quote given by the first/last letters of the extra words (leading to the other three symbols).

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.
I hope I figure out the rest of Listener.

[ProfessorMaisie]

It's just the quote/context I like, you could finish the puzzle without knowing it (you've already done the tricky bit, I think).