Spec2272-Holiday Time

[yellow11]

help please-have spent far too long on this
7d hurt soul,new member of community 7 ??RK?A?
10d discloses formerly leading pair of universal remedies 7 ?N???L?
nb cryptic indications may omit reference to parts of answers
also can't get anywhere with unclued -2 define a word from omitted parts/ second word defines 6 unclued
#have ESSCRRSUM
UNCLUED=4A ?ol???A?I??
!4A N?C??
21a ?E?M
41a ?A?KH?R?E dark/packhorse?
27d ?OR?ISE mortise?
33d ?L??E?
this is driving me mad!

[yellow11]

think one word=recess

[yellow11]

now got 14a

[yellow11]

and 4a

[Neveracrossword]

Your 27 is correct, your second suggestion for 41 A is correct.

[yellow11]

and33d

[Neveracrossword]

21 is an unusual definition of the first of the two word phrase.

[yellow11]

7d now M?RK?A? ?mar plus ka=soul
and 10d UNH?AL? unheals?

[Neveracrossword]

Yes, to Unheals.

[Neveracrossword]

I've no longer got my copy, but 7 D might have been one of the 'may omit references to parts of answer'.