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I loved the humour in today's offering. One bit of parsing escapes me:

9A 18 down 14 coming round Royal Ulster Constabulary (Scottish, hard) (9.6)

I get the 'Constabulary (Scottish, hard)' bit
but I can't see how you get the first word, which I made 'furniture'. Any ideas?

Future is coming, +R for royal and NI for Ulster = Furniture? (presumably with polis h , I don't have the crossword)

Thanks, ab. I couldn't see past RU/RUC.

hi livs et al,
just one to go .6D. have S_L_T_I_M - nothing in Chambers - ????

Splittism

Is in the book but not Chambers online

hi mamya,
thanks for that. found confirmation on google. must be fairly new word. not in my old Collins, Westminster, Oxford or Websters. Mmm. I must be getting old.

Then I'm getting old with you, dizoz: I found the word unbelievable till I found it in my Ch., which is not the latest edition either!