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I can’t sort wordplay for 21 or KRONE. Help, please. Thanks!

21 look at 4th definition of tun in Chambers. Dee is the river.

An anabiotic form can return to life after appearing dead. An example of an anabiotic form is a cryptobiont, which is a biological sense of the word “tun”.

Don’t we learn a lot doing crosswords?

7D(b). I thought that I'd reasoned this okay, but looking again, I'm not so sure. Anyway. I thought KRI for a bible interpretation, perhaps a bit of a stretch, so if that is cut, leaves KR. Gambling game EO. E extra. But then I double counted the extra letter, reading NE for ENE, variation of EVEN or Just.

But Krone is rock solid, since letters 2-5 are checked by 7D(a), and the K is checked by playfair square encoding.

Re 7d(b), K’RI is a marginal reading of the Hebrew Bible, the I is cut, and then “just after” is a definition of ON. Finally, the betting game is EO, with O being the extra letter. This gives KRONE.

Now I can relax.

Meursault, the clue works thus: KR(I), as you suspected, but then ON for 'just after' and E(O) - making O the extra letter.

That makes better sense

That clue for KRONE is just awful. It has a very obscure three-letter word with the last letter deleted, the definition, as Meursault has pointed out, is incorrect, and the surface isn't particularly coherent.

I'm not quite as bowled over by this puzzle as some. I did largely enjoy it, and the idea is a good one, but rather too many extra letters came from two-letter words and abbreviations (especially down clues), which I've always found inelegant and uninteresting. My other gripe is that both clues to 1 and 10 are inadequate, for different reasons. So it's the detail rather than the overall concept and structuring that I think could have been improved.

However, it appears to be a new setter, so I don't want to be overly critical of an interesting debut.

Greetings from a snow bound north wales. I am absolutely flummoxed by the two clues for the thematic names. Can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction, please?

One is a sounds like type of clue

Said gday to Buddhist

Hei sen


Singer is the sewing machine in the other. I in the wordplay is the rather obscure CH.