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For those who need another daily puzzle: I recently discovered Maize in the Indy, and his effort today (Saturday) is challenging with a picturesque feature.

I usually avoid Fed puzzles as I've rapidly tired of Dave Gorman's rather smarta*se and smug comic guise. But I didn't check the setter first and really enjoyed this, thinking it was probably a Paul. Just shows what an a*se I am.

geeker...

Yes, Maize superb grid-fill. Those 4-letter words... absolutely infuriating in a nice way!

jono

I parsed 19a as:

T- bone is bone with T
opposite will be bone without T

That is 10a, of course

I parsed 10 by reading "-" as "minus".

"Bone - T" is negative (opposite) of "T - bone" [= -(T - bone)]

Does no-one agree that the definition for 21a is wrong? They could quite probably have more than the compiler!

Chris, I agree.
The wordplay was so obvious that I wrote in the solution without thinking, but the definition does appear inaccurate.

It relies on Chambers definition 4.

Chambers is wrong again. The word for "godless" is "atheist". The solutions have gods, different from Christian ones, and probably more numerous. The word was invented by Christians to denigrate anyone who wasn't. They (of course) were equally deluded.)