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Thanks, Aristo, for helping with explanations.

Another crazy short-staffed Friday so didn't have a chance to peruse the site, which is really starting to bug me. They've added another layer of ads at the bottom. Perhaps we should move to Answer Bank. They have their act together - a few ads, of course, but under control.

Ixion - re cups: don't see it in Chambers but it's in the Canadian Oxford.
Assume you folks are totally metric.

I liked the D cup zinger.

To both: segue here:
http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/494308/aristo-ixion

Finally, caught up with quite a few outstanding puzzles. Great puzzle (once I got to grips with the preamble in practice), thanks again syzygy.

@ aristo; I can well understand your high regard for these setters as my own increases with each puzzle. Can't remember if I ever thanked you for directing me to the Atlantic archive.