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12 Across Name "blastit wonner" (6) I think this is renown, but why? from Burns? How?

Blastit could just be dialect/slang/Scottish for 'blasted' - as in smashed, so smash up/anagram the word 'wonner' and you get Renown, name.

PS That could be wildly wrong as it was just a guess.

Thanks Malone, think your parsing of this clue is right. I had never heard of blastit, and went for a quote from 'To a Louse'. Overthinking here - Myops makes me do it! Was always bad at anagrams!

I'd never heard of 'blastit' itself, but I remember 'sleekit' (in the Mouse poem) so maybe the '-it' ending is quite common? At least you've got some reasoning - perhaps correct - for your answer!

18d Writer for American Time (6) p???s?
24a Gold's the choice (5) ??h?r

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24 Other?

I wondered that too = OR around THE? Don't quite see how it works, though.

I didn't feel Other equalled Choice,a bit iffy?