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...the reference in 25d is still lost on me and others…

His feminine counterpart from N.Y was " the subject of all the Town’s talk " (4)

Answer: BEAU

my lovely grandmother used to sing this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nmXy043fig

PS I have commented on fhe Fifteensquared thread.

Ambrose was def. Bert Ambrose Grandma knew him too!

Excellent work Jazzy (are you also Delia?)

Yes, the real me, Jono 🙂

Aha, I’m Jay over there and Jono here (for no reason I can recall)

16a is a bit tricky - no clue, just (8)! Maybe I'm missing something (other than some words in the clue that is)?

E*R*H* R. are the known letters and, apparently Searcher is the only iword that fitted (at the time the crossword was printed)

So did that used to be a valid type of clue back then, or is it a misprint I wonder?

I have just checked "fifteensquared" and Alan Scott states :

"16A was – He may investigate the declarer’s bona fides (8)
NB bona fides appeared in italics."

That was the clue in the original paper