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I've got an almost full grid bar the upper NE corner, where it's looking sparse. Can anyone offer a hint for 6a, which I think should see me home - hopefully!

Brendan, The unaltered word is an abbreviation for an 'award' + a dialect word for 'man', all in a 3 letter abb. for California

Thanks Mattrom, that's allowed me to get 6d and 7d as well.

Managed to complete this, although there are still a few I've yet to parse properly. I'll mull them over for a while longer before asking for help.

My version of Chambers is the phone app and there is no appendix, so if I were to look up the lower case versions of the letters on Wikipedia, would the end result be the same?

Yes ... i checked and they are identical...

That's great, thanks very much xwordfan.

This lockdown proved to be difficult to lay my hands on a copy of the times. All finished, but I am mystified as to how 37d parses.

there is no 37d? gitto??

Hi Gitto,

The "Stonehaven" is a reference the answer is a Scottish fishing boat and the answer followed by the word 'time' also means GMT.

sorry gitto .. i was looking at speccie...!