Sunday Express Skeleton

[RAKnightley]

Not doing at all well today. Stuck on four:-
2 across Trailer park denizens save me, commonly - A?B?T?S
15 across An extremely astute head girl - A?A
24 across Legend shot and killed last August - G???D
21 down Paper read after Express disheartened - E????
Thanks.

[dannyk13]

Arbutus
Ada
Grand
Essay

[RAKnightley]

Thanks, Dannyk. My brain is a bit mushy today - I usually do better than this!

[Keith43]

Don't like to disagree, but I have Ava.

[andychi]

15 ac i think it is ava extremely (very) i cant see where the d in ada would come from, i may be wrong.

[dannyk13]

Got to agree with you, (my error)

[planeman]

Cannot fully parse GRAND for "LEGEND" perhaps this is being pronounced as LEG END but what about the rest??

[dannyk13]

G (end of leg) + ran(shot) +(kille)d

[planeman]

Thanks danny, now realise August was the "kidology"
for august( lower case "a") meaning grand and nothing to
do with the month of August