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Clevertask - the word is "egocentric"

Ixion-- reference to the words relevant to the theme, the instructions state "these letters in clue order" or am I missing something here??

Oak

The first word starts at 4A and continues through the across clues and into the down clues finishing at 6D

Hope this helps

thanks Ixion, I was thinking numerical progression

Can someone explain 31a please?

For Xwordman:-In town = en ville. Sailor (AB0 replaces lieutenant (LT), but the t of Lt is one of the themed letters - so we have ENVI-AB-LE

in town - en ville
sailor - ab
lieutenant - lt

Thanks AJT - that's what I had but couldn't sort it!

If you can bear to take yourselves back... were the two words egocentric (I saw that that was given earlier) and self-satisfied?

If so, could someone please let me know the clue numbers from which these letters come, and the word-play for numbers 9, 11 and 18?

Hi Twm.

'egocentric' is right. 'self-satisfied' not right, but 'self-c??????' would be ('c' from 15d).

9 ... "Lie ?????" if you don't want to be seen (just like a man's best friend).
11 ... Just a reminder that 'N' represents a knight in chess; you can work back from there, I think.
18 ... Care of Daily Telegraph.

JimC