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The horse may have bolted already, jaunty - be quick!

I'd rather struggle for the mo, chris. Can I assume that the first letter of 1d is one of the last 3 letters of the alphabet? Still doesn't help with the parsing though hah. Yes jaunty, (after the horse has bolted !)

That's what I have, and I think chrisg and GK as well - we can't fully explain it, though chrisg may have an idea.

ok managed to get 2d and 1d. Only 22a and 19d to go

just done 19d . Re the first letter of 1d, when you "times" a number, can this also be shown as "take" ?

yes i had thought the same thing but not convinces. However have now done the rest !

Ingenious, jazzy, but I think "take" would be subtract rather than multiply - which might be "by", though that doesn't help.

I'll have another think then, but am I right with the "times" bit ? Still stuck on 22a. Need more coffee

Well, how strange you should hit on the arithmetical sense of takes = multiplied by! I had the vague feeling an hour ago, & have just seen it confirmed on AB, tho' I couldn't find it in Ch. at a quick glance. I'm going to take it now "as read" anyway. Trouble is, grid & clues have still not arrived...................

I have "times" (though of course it isn't pronounced that way)