Inquisitor 155

[MLN:RUGBY]

Have completed grid, found 3 possible books & pretty sure I know which to highlight (from 1st augmentation), but cant figure out the second "augmentation". Can anyone please put me out of my misery?

[ulysses100]

Hi MLN,
There are three book titles two of which have the name of the crossword in the authors ; the third book's author sounds like the last words of the quotation. So does that mean blacking out the first two and highlighting the third ? (I don't understand the augmentation part of the instructions ).

I also have a problem with three of the clues :
12a Passing cat that is going inside ??IEF
17a Little Rachel etc ?AELE?E
1d Engrave once more .... RE???Y
Any hints ?

[slaney]

I'm equally confused.
Presuming the augmentations to be the two words of the title, when added to the first part of the quotation sound a bit like the initial and surname of one of the authors, so I decided to highlight that.
As you say ulysses the second bit of the quotation sounds like the name of another of the authors ,so I have blacked that one out. Add the second augmentation is the singular form of the third author which I have also blacked out. I'm not happy with any of this though, and feel sure there must be something better.

12a Definition is the first word - cat in the sense of vomit.
17a can be found in the first appendix of Chambers. A Shakespearean king reversed and enemy minus my (well!)
1d Think of to inter.

[ulysses100]

Thanks so much slaney.
A groan moment for 1d for engrave to re-inter. I had even looked at the diminutive Rae in the appendix and did not see the other name beneath it (I must need new glasses !). And I did have brief but didn't like the definition of it.
I agree that the third title should be blacked out but unsure about either of the other two. But if the SW to NE diagonal irefers to the first part of the quotation it seems more likely the one to highlight.

[MLN:RUGBY]

Hi to you both,
I'm still baffled. I agree that the first part of the quotation along with the title produces a homynym of author 1, therefore SW to NE book is to be highlighted. But augmentation 2?
I assume we have the same 3 books/ authors and can tie author 2 to the last or penultimate word of the quotation as another homonym. So how do we tie author 3 to the other augmentation? Am I missing something?

[ulysses100]

Hi MLN,
I think that we are all confused! Two authors have "jaw well" in their names (AF and GO ; K and h.G.W) and the third sounds like the last two words of the quotation (VB and eW); but, as it says the first two are better than the last one, but two titles are to be blacked out which means that the opposite "war" is to be highlighted which is against the quotation ?

[MLN:RUGBY]

Thanks Ulysses, now I'm even more confused!
I took the first augmentation to be jaw-jaw (well) = G.O. & couldn't figure out the second along with war (EW), representing HGW!

Now I'm confusing myself!! :-(

[Mysterons]

Is there a mistake with the wordplay in 13 across - I can't see where the M comes from ?

[ulysses100]

I agree Mysterons but the only possible word is legroom