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Across
EQUALS SIGN
ASAR
FIBROMA
ENIGMAS
CALVE
UNSETTLED
MODERATOR
ANON
APSE
RISK MONEY
HORSELESS
SEVER
REALISE
CHIRRUP
DUTY
STRONG SUIT
Down
EFFECT
UMBEL
LOOSENER
SNAFU
GUESSWORK
SEMBLANCE
RESIDENT
BIOTA
OBSERVANT
ALINEMENT
LATHERED
COASTING
DENIM
ARMPIT
SECCO
VIRTU
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Hi, could you explain how you got 6 across please? “As soon as Reynard heads into the lights, we may see Fox tracks”.
I can see the initial letters of “As soon as Reynard” referenced by “heads” which gives the answer, but where do lights and Fox tracks fit it?
Hi Rick – first of all, thanks for including the clue wording in your question!
Yes, you’re right about the initial letters. ‘Into the lights’ means ‘put into the white squares of the crossword’ – lights is used in that sense, although not commonly in my experience. An ASAR is a Scandinavian word for a long trail (‘track’) of rocks and gravel left by a glacier and its meltwater. So ‘Fox’ is a reference to the Fox Glacier. This is my explanation anyway 🙂
Not a very successful clue to my mind! I enjoyed the reference to the Fox Glacier but ‘Asar’ doesn’t seem to be an English word, and ‘lights’ is also pretty obscure. So two obscure references make this a pretty far-fetched clue in my opinion…
Thanks for the explanation, it’s appreciated. I feel somewhat vindicated for not getting the reasoning behind that one, but I should have seen the reference to Fox glacier.
Thought there were some dubious clues in this one. How one arrives at HORSELESS (24A) from “King was in such a state that he offered to exchange all his property for transport” escapes me.
It’s a reference to Shakespeare’s Richard III who cries ‘my kingdom for a horse’ on the battlefield. He was facing death and defeat in a ‘horseless state’.
https://literarydevices.net/my-kingdom-for-a-horse/
Oh! Not Charles Brady King then? Just discovered he had something to di with inventing a horseless carriage. In any case, a weird clue!
Haha – well, you might be right but I’ve never heard of CB King so I’m sticking with my solution 🙂