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Hi, Rusty!
One of our CD players has a radio....and another will play tapes...although the few of those that I had, "died" a long time ago!
( I rather think that one of the cats unravelled one of the tapes !)
I cannot remember knowing why "Scout" was so called?
She was somewhat of a tomboy...hated "girlish" activities .....and liked to "scout around" and find out about things......could it be that?
As I said, I am re-reading the book, so may come across an explanation, whilst so doing.
Yes, the book was very well reviewed, and Harper Lee won a Pulitzer prize for it.
I haven't done much of my puzzle...the morning did not go down as I had planned!
Phone calls and a visitor put paid to that!
I shall take a look shortly and get back to you, if I can offer any assistance over 22a and 14a!
Unlikely that I shall be able to do so, though, if you cannot do it!

Hello, Elle!
Just home, was out for a dander.
It is a long time since I had tapes, either audio or video!
I did a bit of "scouting" to find out why Scout was so called.
Your view is what I discovered to be the likely answer, (well done!) though the author did not divulge the reason.
I have looked up 14a in Chambers and there is a definition there that covers 14a quite nicely.
That leaves 22a. I have the answer, but I simply do not understand the technicalities of Chambers definition.
And Collins is the same.
It is "Beyond My Ken", as it were, or I am just thick!

Hi, Rusty!
Well, I am afraid that I can be of no help, as I cannot do three of the clues, and , unfortunately, that includes 14a and 22a!
I have
14a: T???N???S?
22a: P???O???R
Also 10d: T?K? / ??E / ???N?E
And no ideas whatsoever!
I liked 11a: lanolin and 5d: ill- considered.
"Bong" as in a pipe used for smoking marijuana , is new to me.
Do you remember the radio stations "Beyond Our Ken " and "Round The Horne"?
I enjoyed them.......very clever and funny!

Hello, Elle!
14, is "Turing Test". The day is "Tues", call is "ring", "t" for time, "t"hat's first.
Have a look in Chambers and see if you understand it!
22, turns out to be "pot boiler".
It is a term that I did not know the meaning of.
10, is "take the plunge".
Army was "TA", maintain is "keep", forward movement is "lunge", about half of "th"em.
Yes I remember those shows.
I liked them!

Hi, Rusty!
Ah, thank you very much for your help.
Yes, I can follow your parsing......
But no, I, too, don't understand the answers!
I have never heard the term "potboiler"
And the explanation of "Turing Test", in Chambers, sounds to me like "gobbledygook"!
Did you ever listen to "The Day of the Triffids " as a serial on the radio?
Oh my, was it spooky!
So much more scary that it was as a film!
And I remember being terrified by "Journey into Space"......I used to make my mother look under my bed, before I would go to sleep!

Hello, Elle!
I had seen "potboiler" written in articles but did not know what it meant, until I looked it up today.
I looked up "Turing Test" on YouTube, and am slightly the wiser, I think.
I don't remember listening to "The Day of the Triffids", though.
The scariest programme that I remember was "The Black Museum", on Radio Luxembourg, narrated by Orson Welles.
Was about "true murders"! Was scary!
Orson Welles had the perfect voice for it!

Hi. Rusty!
I don't remember "The Black Museum".
I do think that there were some programmes that were not as effective on TV as they were on the radio.
I used to like "listening" to "The likely Lads" - James Bolam, Rodney Bewes - but it was never as funny when "seen"!
Well, we have rain...again!
I do not recall our ever having so much rain in our particular locality....somehow, our village would miss out on the rain...even if it were raining a few hundred yards down the road!
I think the forecast is poor for tomorrow , too!

Good evening, Elle!
"The Black Museum" was on Luxembourg in 1953.
(Just looked it up!)
I did not know "The Likely Lads" was a radio show, only saw the TV show.
And you have more rain!
It is slightly frosty here.
Our local forecast is good for the next few days.

Rusty / Elle

I believe that Kenneth Horne’s programmes can still be heard on BBC Radio 4Extra - as can many other classics.

Hi, Rusty!
Update...…..I've looked this up...... and it seems I misinformed you!
The original "Likely Lads" series seems to have started as a black and white TV show.
Then it was adapted for the radio.
Later on, the show returned to the TV in colour entitled "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"
It must have been this last that I saw on the television, after having listened to the earlier radio shows.
Now...do you know of a radio show , with George Cole playing a young man called David, who had a dog called Psyche?
The young man had a very forceful mother who tried to run his life!
I have been racking my brains to remember what the radio series was called?
It was very amusing!