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NB: There is a typo in the solution grid at 34D, even though the parsing is correct.
It should be EGEST.

January puzzle:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YkAklOOEl0P1ny9HuL6qD6Sjyb8x_NrV/view?usp=sharing

December solution:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bfbH2RMw4mFpXaLc95CWnqdvZg6_s0zm/view?usp=sharing

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Scans courtesy of Sunray.

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7h The Gods of theater answer is new to me.

But the clue being Gods, should the answer be plural also?

No, Sunray - it's only the phrase, using the plural, that leads to the answer, theatre-goers could say they were seated in 'the gods'. I'm not making a good job of explaining, sorry!


Thanks for the puzzle - and thanks too to Syzygy. It wasn't the toughest, but quite good fun.

Thanks malone.
I read up on it so now clear.

Thanks syzygy, I always like this format. Quite a few belters with 12d) particularly taking my eye.

Thank you! Very nice. I'm not seeing the full parse for 12a though:

State what's in a mythic box? I will! I will! (4)

I see where the first two letters come from, and assume that my answer's right, but I'm not sure how the third and fourth letters are arrived at.

Hi aristo,
I took it to be Pandora's and the contraction of I will to I'll X 2 so plural.

Thanks, ginge. I too took it as Pandora's box, but I don't see what "state" is for then. I thought he might have meant Illinois (IL). If not, wouldn't "What's in a mythic box?" suffice?

Hi again aristo, I believe it's there solely to "make sense" of the surface.

I think most of us had trouble with that one.

12A - ILL is also a valid abbreviation:
https://www.infoplease.com/state-abbreviations-and-state-postal-codes

So I assume the clue implies ILL'S - "state what is" or "state that is" .
Probably not explaining it well.