Ev 1468

[pomona]

some clues contain an extra letter..

1a High speed via Malta, returned to European country, avoiding capital (8) ??T?????
13d Charlie withdrawn, losing heart in goodly mate (9) ?????T?N?
possibly O from goodly is extra?
6d Passionately disheartened with poet's festive addition to church (9, 2 words)

[aelmpvw]

1a motorway

[pomona]

Thanks aelmpvw ......parse please?

[pomona]

typical ...i see it now ...thanks again!

[ProfessorMaisie]

13 ASSISTANT
6 HOLY GRASS

[pomona]

Thank you ...just solved assistant before i looked on here again!
How does holy grass parse please?

[ProfessorMaisie]

('motorway' is thematic).

13 - yes, the 'o' is extra - it's centre of 'go[d]ly' giving the 'd' removed from [d]ISTANT (after ASS = 'charlie')

6 'HO[t]LY' ('passionately disheartened') + 'po[e]t' = GRASS ['e' is extra].

[pomona]

Thank you ...will plod on ..hard one today!

[ProfessorMaisie]

I could be wrong (because some of the clues are very devious) but it looks like there might be an error in the penultimate down clue.

It must be a straight/thematic clue but the 4 letter answer I've got looks like it has an extra 't' (I've removed the 't' from '...no[t] good' to get the last two letters of my answer).

[professorplum13]

yes ..i see what you mean there.
What was the original answer to 20d Spurious communications device on yard (6)...I have the german grid entry filled in there now ...

and why inca for 28a Men around on island race 4) M is extra

[ProfessorMaisie]

20d phoney
INCA - yes, the 'm' is extra, [m]en = N + CA = 'around' [after] I(sland) def 'race'.

[professorplum13]

Thank you