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"necessary" in 5d anyone?

Hi Bunty,

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Thanks pkd... thought it had to be that ...should have checked it out in Chambers...although it is obscure.

Thank you for that confirmation Jigjag. Hope your mouth is feeling better. I will have another look at this later when I have finished some pressing work - and I don't mean ironing! "Only" 16 clues to solve and certainly more adjustments than that to be made. I know 19 across and 8 down need altering but do 17 across and 9 and 15 down?

17a no
9d yes letters 3,4,5
15d no

"Calima" at 27d does appear to exist elsewhere but Chambers, or at least my copy of it, has "calina".

I also don't get how "truest" which appears to be the answer to 5d can be defined by "flatter" ("flattest" would be ok).

Thank you Bunty. I have now downed work tools for the day and hope I can get a bit more done on this. I suspect I may not get it finished given that I need to solve another 14 clues.

stephen53

agree with you on both. 2 more errors to add to the tally

The entry in Chambers was CALIMA until the revised 13th edition when it somehow became CALINA.
Couldn't 'flatter', be used in the comparative sense ('the flatter of two surfaces') to justify Oxymoron's use of TRUEST here? I'm not convinced it's the superlative sense of the word that's been clued.
I certainly didn't like the clue, and I thought it was a bit unfair to give a difficult clue for such an obscure unit of currency, but I'm not convinced it's an error.
Schadenfreude's built up quite a reputation for precision over the years (in this puzzle for instance, there are 15 normal entries and 15 across + 15 down thematics) I don't think he makes many mistakes.

drxx - Re "calima"/"calina" - fair enough I suppose, though the setter cites Chambers 2016 as the work of reference and a mention in the preamble might have been handy.

Re the other one, I'm not sure what you're getting at. "Truest" is a superlative. I don't see what other "sense" it can have. "Flatter" is either a verb or (presumably as used here) a comparitive. How can one legitimately define the other?