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I was going so well but have hit a wall with 7ac. I have x96, but none of my remaining prime candidates for D have multiples ending in 96. Is 96 wrong?

s_pugh:

("all answers and entries are different" means that none of your 21 answers (entries) to the clues will be different; a specific clue may have more than one answer that results in the same prime and grid entry. As I pointed out, 12 down is guaranteed to have several answers that all lead to the correct entry and prime.

The solution to the puzzle is unique - that is there is exactly 1 set of grid entries and primes that satisfy all of the clues, with no duplicates. In most cases the clue ANSWERS are unique but a few, like 12 down, have equally valid answers. If you gather up all of the candidate answers for the 21 clues that generate the unique grid, you will have a set of 26 numbers with no repeats - so all answers are different.

Obviously, I meant to say: all of your 21 answers (entries) to the clues will be different

Steve your x96 is correct. D has to be fixed from the unique value obtained from 15 across.

D'oh!! Thanks unclued, I couldn't see the wood for the trees

Woe is me! I thought I was so nearly there, but now I seem to have something incorrect because I appear to have two possible digits that could start 13ac and still be 'correct' for both 13ac and 10dn.

Back to the drawing board....

Kindred, the first digit of 13 across is 4.

Thanks Unclued - that at least is one of my options! I'm going through everything now trying to work out how I have an alternative apparently creeping in there, and hoping it's not symptomatic of an error somewhere else!

I think perhaps I was taking my digit sums too far...

I've got most of the grid filled, but I think I must have gone wrong somewhere as the last few won't tally. Could someone confirm the last digit of 4 down? I had it as 5, but now I'm not sure.