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Would appreciate help with parsing 20d, Inclined to scoff about a lot of information in cold weather? I think the answer is winter?

Inte(l) in wry

Thanks, Ginge,

Parsing check, please, for 1d: Reading, putting ring round two references to the Queen?
P-R-S-L

PERUSAL seems right, so PEAL for the ring, R for Regina and does US echo
the royal 'we'?

Yes, Paul...., Chambers gives 'us' as '(in editorial and royal use) one, oneself, we'.

The same usage of “us” is listed in Collins, Malone. I believe that’s the dictionary used as primary source by The Times crossword people (though obviously not for The Listener Crossword nor The Sunday Times’s Mephisto, both of which mention Chambers as reference). Confusingly, for The Times’s Polygon word game, the authority is the Concise Oxford.

Thanks for that, Will37. I don't think the Times has a 'primary' source - Richard Rogan, then crossword editor, said once that they use the 'standard references', Chambers and Collins. I suppose this is reasonable when you consider all the daily puzzles, the weekend ones, the Jumbos.... some of the setters for these would be Collins fans or users, others would be strictly Chambers.