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Well spotted Rossim, - I'm getting my mice nursery rhymes confused.

The G is wrong. A word meaning water followed by a type of wine - gives a pretty poor synonym of parched.

Thanks, rm54. Now have to cudgel my feeble brain to adjust 24a: ' link that is bringing together metal components' for which I now have T_ E - _N . Can't parse obvious answer. . .

An abbreviation for 'that is' might help.

As might a 3 letter metal.

Thanks again rm54 and rossim but please bear with my stupidity! I have a 3 letter metal but that leaves me with ie which I don't believe is a chemical symbol . . .

Hi Jay, IE is an abbreviation for the Latin term 'Id Est', meaning...."That Is"

Thanks for your patience , Brendan. I was firmly fixed on finding 2 metals . Not the brightest spark but i do love a cryptic !

Hi Jay, in your defence, the clue does say "metal components" plural and, given that the definition appears to be "link", I'm not really sure why? Maybe we're both missing something obvious :(

As someone who got this wrong until I came to this forum (I had CU+TIN as metal components), I don't really feel qualified to pass comment but my take is that the 2 letter abbreviation separates the 2 componentS of the metal.