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I have seen that Meursault but it does not correspond the conventions in English school in the 1960s.

For example: I believe that K Y and Z were only used in words borrowed from Greek, eg Kalends or Zephyrus. I was used as a consonant and a vowel, Iulius and never Julius. U (written V in roman inscriptions) always existed as both a consonant and vowel but was written V in its consonantal form, eg Vesuvius.

X was always a vital component of the alphabet.

Woodlouse you are on the right track but you are looking for a modern language. Check the grid for words that require translation into English.

Grazie Smithstax.

But still can't carry out the final instruction. Am I right to be looking for an actual grid entry into which I can notionally add back letters to make a real word. That word can then be found in the grid if I change 4 letters?

In the grid you will find 5 lost in translation letters in a line. 4 of them can be exchanged for acceptable letters to form a translation of another relevant grid entry leaving real words. Sadly setter was forced to leave the fifth letter unchanged which feels a little unsatisfactory.

Thanks, fair enough. I was trying to make Jabberwocky or similar

All done now barring some confusion over the instruction in the down clues, where I'm having 20/21 confusion. Have I misnumbered? Hmph.

Verlaine, I misnumbered - it worked better when I ran off a photocopy and put the numbers in quite large!

I am confused by the phrase “whose thematic form is a grid entry”. I have changed four of the five letters to make an abbreviation of the language (and of course all five letters spelling the country) but is that it? What is this grid entry being referred to?

Got it now! Hadn’t solved a down clue giving an answer in the top right corner.