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Abicoop, 1 A is just an anagram - leading to a very odd-looking (but correct) word.

1 D. The misprint comes at the very beginning... (Sacks doesn't involve hessian or employment, a more old-fashioned usage).

Thanks, got those two now. Hopefully will open up a bit more for me. I'll no doubt be back!

For the end game, I went with a literal interpretation of “drawing...in” - ie, drawing inside - and took the first part of the verse given by the corrected letters as advice not to colour in or highlight cells. Seemed pretty clear. But that’s just my hap’orth.

I agree with you jack.

jif73, my previous posting was to highlight the subtle difference between the Chambers definition of the verb to the noun.

I do not see that drawing lines AROUND the blanks to produce the symbol fits the instruction - surely just producing the symbol within the blanked-out area is the correct interpretation of what is required.

Grid completed but I would appreciate anyone's views on the following clues:
19ac. Answer is OTT but how do you get that from "loris, edges away"

23ac. Why are Leonians "born under fire"

21dn. How is a GNU a horned horse

Thanks

19 (p)OTT(o)

23 I'm no expert on astrology but isn't Leo a fire sign?

21 Chambers defines GNU as superficially like a horse

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Thank you for "potto".

It is difficult to find in Chambers but under the entry for "fire sign" it does indeed say that Leo is one (of three).

My Chambers gives GNU as resembling a buffalo. Can that be seen as being the same as a horse?

Anyway, your help is much appreciated.

That's interesting. My old Chambers (2003) defines GNU as a large African antelope (genus Connochaetes or Catoblepas), superficially like a horse or buffalo (also called wildebeest) but the app version misses out "like a horse".

Still filling in my grid... is 25a Marmot? I can see the rodent and the damage but the trees?

One of the definitions of MOT in Chambers is (US) a clump of trees, esp on a prairie.