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Found this on the website under 'Cryptic' although it is a prize.
Very complicated instructions - I don't understand how one can tell which clues need to be anagramized. Alternate across and down? Any help in clarifying the instructions gratefully received!

I was just going to ask as weel. If one of the solutions is angrammed and a letter added before being entered, won't it be longer than the other one?

I think you find a word one letter short of the solution and then add a letter to this word and anagramize it. The problem I have is knowing where this happens...

Can some clever person confirm my answers for 17D
I have put sonntag on left and Maitre D on right. That gave an N for my alphabet and anagram one. Is that correct please?

17D. Working during male party one day in Berlin, I dreamt about head waiter (4,3;6,1)
Spoiler alert (please don't put solutions down at this stage)
I got these too but I don't think sonntag is right. Working out the across/down instruction to alternate the letters added, it should mean that T goes in to the anagram not N. And the solution is 4,3 so must be another word...

Redhead said> "Working out the across/down instruction to alternate the letters added" is what I don't follow.

There are 26 slots in each grid. The instruction says: " The 26 alphabetical letters so used are to be added alternately to these across and down anagrams." So, we are going us use the letters A-Z once each, I think it means. But what is the significance of the "added alternately to these across and down anagrams" bit? cheers all!

Thanks Redhead. Point taken. Sorry

Alternately means, I think, that eg 7A add A, 1D add B, 8A add C, 2D add D...and so on

sontag is what you get first for the first bit, then add the missing letter ....easily worked out to be T ...gives a 4,3 anagram

Got Sontag and the T...but the anagram could be anything.