Spectator 2599 -Slow To Change

[Matakari]

Good morning,
A real challenge from Mr Magoo this week! Anyone completed it?
Gave it a rest yesterday, and am back at it today! A handicap with
no ODQ!

[Matakari]

Thanks, NACW, for the invitation to Chalicea's EV.
I missed the link. If anyone has it, I would be glad
to have it so that I might get some more practice
with Chalicea's technique.

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Matakari. I'm hopeless at links, but if you put my name in Search, you'll get a list of threads I've responded to. The recent EV one there.

[klazomaniac]

I think it's this one mate.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Question1833418.html

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Klazo.
Matakari, think positive - you have fared well with Chalicea in the past!

[Matakari]

Thanks, Klazo and NACW, for the link!

[Matakari]

Good morning, having some fun with Chalicea this morning! I've completed all the DOWN clues with one exception for which I seek help. Thanks in advance!
15 Island’s centres for tax exile culture (3) : A??

[scorpiojo]

Ait (island) - centre letters of tax exile culture

[Neveracrossword]

Matakari, I'm delighted that my recommendations have gone down so well. You seem to be enjoying the Chalicea puzzles!

[Matakari]

Thanks, Professor, andNACW, EV is a nice one and I’m navigating between that and Tunnel Vision2 to understand Chalicea better. I am not quite sure about the extra letter in some of the clues. Help with the following would be appreciated:

17 Gastropods partly adorn islets (5) : ?D?IS
18 Scottish drink recipe yielded cases to be reviewed (4) : ?R?P
20 Returning Christmas stars (3) : ?EI
21 Bizarre particle, hot like a mock sun (8) : PATHETIC T
22 Husband following game dancer (5) : A???H
23 Name of a Scot; symbol of chastity (3) : I?N
25 Wild actions hiding a thousand spikes (7) : CATKINS
26 World Boxing Association adopts a full length robe (3) : SBA W (WBA )

[Neveracrossword]

17 In the clue (remember the extra letter bit..)
20 Your last letter is wrong. Think of a four-letter word for Christmas, one that can lose a letter to form 'stars' (a star sign..)when reversed.

[Neveracrossword]

Your 21 and 26 aren't correct.

[klazomaniac]

23 Name of a Scot; symbol of chastity (3) : I?N
Typical Scotsmans name. Also means 'Of relationship/ Not playing around'

25 Wild actions hiding a thousand spikes (7) : CATKINS
Looks good.
acti(o)ns + K [thousand] anag

[Neveracrossword]

Klazo, did you see, do this puzzle? I think you'd have quite enjoyed it.

[klazomaniac]

No I didn't NAC. I don't subscribe.

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Klazo. I hadn't realised that Matakari's batch was from this week's Listener, I thought he'd moved on to EV!

[klazomaniac]

I thought the link I passed on was from Chalicea's EV ?
I never attempted that either.
But now i'm confused.

[Neveracrossword]

I told Matakari about the Listener, and I expect he was able to ... source that. More recently, I recommended EV and we gave him details for that one. It's pretty confusing - we might soon be having Spectator, Listener and EV queries all on this one thread! (And I never like that really, the people who like/dislike certain puzzles can then miss the posts.)

[klazomaniac]

''we might soon be having Spectator, Listener and EV queries all on this one thread! ''

It seems it has already started ;-)

[Matakari]

My apologies, NACW and Klazo, if my posting here created some confusion! I'll open a new thread!

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Klazo. I don't know if Matakari has started asking about EV - yet -but there have been so many queries!