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Dear Foinavon, I pondered over Frank for some time. There doesn’t seem to be any corroborating evidence in TCD, and I would imagine the two food items originated in different countries. Perhaps in America the two terms are synonymous. Anyway on completion of the crossword there doesn’t seem to be any alternative to the obvious answer.

Thanks! Just what I had done.

The ODE has corroborative evidence, and it’s common enough in the US, though it could have been mentioned in the preamble

The parsing of UPSEE seems straightforward to me:

UPS = lifts
EE = an eye to Montgomery kindred (i.e. an eye to Scots) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Montgomery)

Got lots but stuck now in the middle and sw. I have the perimeter phrase - does it actually relate directly to the rest of the puzzle or is it just associated wording to “targets”. Otherwise a nudge with 14 and the first part of 15 might see me home.

Hi, rrrobbo,

For 14, Slough is pronounced “sluff”. You need a five-letter word meaning twine as a verb, and a common four-letter word for a cigarette paper.

For the first answer in 15, you are looking for a generic colloquial word for a first year student in North America. In the U.K., we would probably use a seven-letter word for such a student The first five letters of this word will give a synonym for cheeky, and then change the middle letter to an O.

Hello All,
A gentle nudge with the second and third of 18 would be most helpful

Many thanks
Dot'n'Dave

Dot and Dave,
Alabama is ALA and for the last one think of a 4-letter word for a trip and lose the last letter.

I've got to the stage where I need to find the targets. The MADCAP POTS... bit suggests I should put 18 letters into my grid but I only have 12 blank cells (before completing the perimeter). So I assume that letters have to go where the obstacles are.

I notice a six-letter word has emerged at the beginning of the 6th row. Is that significant or coincidental?

As ever, many thanks.
Now onto nothings!