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Hi Orson, it might be Scottish, see here…
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns2594

That's interesting, jono. Thanks.

Glad I could help

Malone Jigjag

If you are looking in, nice to see one of your favourite words at 1A in Times today

I'm fairly sure I heard a ClassicFM presenter yesterday say "and that was Desire, from Verdi's Requiem".

Grunger, thanks. I thought of you and Jigjag when I entered 1 Across earlier today. The child in me still reads it (inwardly, not aloud) as Four ....

I was grumbling away to myself at the weekend as a few puzzles seemed to be clinging on to old, dated terms. Hip, with it, was there - it's always there, despite not being used for decades. There were others, but I can't remember them. I didn't want to mention them at the time as the puzzles were 'live' and I didn't want any spoilers. By Monday or Tuesday, my brain erased the niggles!

Malone Grunger

I entered it as fo'c's'le but I was a character short, so there must be an alternative spelling.

Malone

I have never heard 'hip' used in that sense, though it is always used in crosswords as you say. Not often heard "with it" either, though I hear it used in the 'I'm not with it today' sense.

Jigjag

Fo'c's'le's a lovely word but did it fit with the checkers?

Perhaps it's time for apostrophes to have their own square. You'd want it to be FO''C'S'LE (10) but of course one apostrophe of omission often represents two letters.

ONE'S often occurs in phrase solutions and somehow doesn't deserve its (4)

Paul

Sorry, I have been unable to solve your clue.