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If 12 is in ODE it certainly isn’t in mine (3rd Edition, 2010). Issue numbers must be given.

I think 32d is a double definition. But the second definition isn't that obvious to me.

I have the solution, but I got there without ever solving one of the replaced entries. That's a small black mark against an otherwise excellent, clever and tough puzzle.

Great theme!

Many thanks, G&T.

Still to crack 1A, but apart from that I’m stuck on 41. I know the corrected letter, but nothing seems to fit. I’m assuming no clash with 34 or 40. Is that right?

FINALLY solved 1 across. I only have 8 clashes too.
Thanks to G&T - a good theme!

Jockie, 41 was the last one I did. No clashes. You may need to look up all the possibilities to find the defined word, it is slightly unusual in its form.

Thanks dsc. I’d already found the sinficance of the 4th word. As said later it must simply be a double def.

Only 8 clashes for me as well...

Is the modified entry at 10 across a word? I can't find it in Chambers

I think there's a flaw that results in ambiguity in the final result:
Note that there is nothing in the instruction to rule out additional clashes in deploying the letters from the 7x4 block (in fact there a definite clashes between the original unches and the final ones). That means that it would be legitimate to switch whatever you put in the last row with the unchecked letter in any of the ???????? ones (for example the last two letters of 27 down). We are changing a bunch of unches in the two replaced entries, after all, so why not change the ones from the ?????????

Note by Admin - words removed as I am informed that they give away how some answers are to be treated prior to entry.

It says that one of the new words is in the ODE. That seems to be 10ac.

Right! I forgot about that!

I wonder if the 9th clash requirement means that the unch in one of the ???????? must be deliberately chosen to force another clash in the bottom row and is thus a trap to weed out submissions...


Note by Admin - word removed as I am informed that it gives away how some answers are to be treated prior to entry