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Further confused with 12a. Is the answer a character in Julius Caesar or a Greek word meaning no charge?

12a grat + is

It does look like GRATIS but, like you flummoxed, I'm equally having a bad day

12a grat (scots greet or cry) +is (Isaiah)

Thanks Stevie. I seem to have the phrase 'Brutus wept' in my addled brain and the 'b' tied in with 'book'.

23 A Pinkie (9) A????????

Struggling today ...

23a auricular (as in having appendages)

Thanks Stevie (as always)

Just looked in. Thank goodness it isn't just me who's bamboozled by the 1A/2D enigma!

1a - Googling PRANASSUS gives a few hits, some probably typos but some suggest Colorado. This from the "Scientific American" of June 16 1859 Poetry section

In ancient times its flowery heights
We climbed astride on asses,
And now we take more daring flights,
And steam o'er steep Pranassus !