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Thanks garyjm (did your ID change in between my first and second looK?) That makes 20d Have dubious fun with heartless country in appropriate style UNFITLY - I see anagram FUN + IT(A)LY, but the definition seems to be backwards. Any thoughts?

dubious fun + heartless italy - unfitly?

Got it garjym. Kept thinking it must be heartless "country" i.e. "cy" and just couldn't get it. Now it's clear.

Mille Grazie!

Perhaps in appropriate is written to mislead? Inappropriate style- unfitly?

Have dubious fun seems to double as part of the definition. And well spotted - I changed my id!

Using "in appropriate" to mean "inappropriate" seems verging on cheating!

Yippee finished. Palumbo was obscure even for Araucaria

Chris E

Regarding 20Down "Have dubious fun with heartless country in appropriate style" I took this to be
Have dubious fun = anagram of fun = UNF
Heartless country = IT(a)LY
Solution = UNFITLY
In appropriate style = the definition, but the "appropriate" refers back to the word "dubious", dubiously / unfitly.