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Thanks Nelson. Sorted. I had the wrong answer for 'Enthusiastic nursing and the grids the wrong way round. Doh! Just got to work out the anomaly..

Sorry, I meant ambiguity not anomaly. Quite why it's ambiguous unless it means add the letter rather than the number, I don't know.

All done having guessed at some extra letters as i can't parse ...

objectively we push for a signifcant increase ( the answer "paired" up with the "cartoonist" clue...

son chip may be spiky when blue ? i can see son (or) s + nick but not how they fit together

xwordfan

It's (u)s+ urge
and Son+ ic (for "chip"), as in the blue spiky Hedgehog

Is the central character in the right hand pane well known? I’ve never heard of him which made this harder plus I spent ages wondering what to do with the “here” in Successes of UPS. Also, does a raver yearn? Quite neat ending however.

A craver yearns, teenieleek. The mentions losing a top. As for the central character, he was in the Guardian newspaper and maybe still is.

The *clue* mentions...

Thank you muraria

Thank you orson.

That was quite the slog and it’s in the balance for me whether it was worth it.

However I do admire the fact that the setter spotted the anniversaries and that they were connected and that they had 10 letters each that could start at the centre letter of the 7 letter creator and then come up with these almost matching grids.

Great crossword construction skills.