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Well, that was a nice easy one - and I quite like that the items in the grid are all different shapes, as it resembles the chaos of my own collection.

Just one minor issue for me, I can't find the kite that needs clipping in 34A. Can someone put me out of my misery?

Ta,
Suzannah

SAIL

look up KITE in Chambers, "A light additional ????, usu set high up".

Thanks candledave! Thanks buddy! My own stupid fault for writing down the wrong letter omitted from wordplay in 16A - and therefore, thinking the S was omitted in this one.

Quite enjoyed that, although was somewhat confused by the preamble for the first half of my solve. Was working on the basis that there were also letters missing from clues (as the preamble explicitly states) as well as the ones missing from wordplay. Very poorly worded IMV.

Also (like others it seems) read it to mean all across answers that intersected with the thematic items had letters missing, which held me up briefly.

Had a few parsing loose ends but have been answered by others on the thread, in particular 15d, which i now see is very clever.

Now back to last week - have a full grid but a message with a garbled bit in the middle. May have to start again to figure out my mistakes....

Again my thanks to all who have helped on this one., I do agree with smellyharry. The preamble was far from clear and rather took the edge off a very clever puzzle. I'm not sure the eighth clue was needed anyway. I know that that would have made it too easy a stroll for many.

As I will be not involved next week, the best of luck to those who are. Let me sign off with a question to them: what is the square root of minus y-squared in the Durham coalfield? (One of only two Operational Research jokes)

Presumably yi, (pronounced why-aye), ws? Very droll

A nice clean straightforward puzzle in the main, spoiled only by the third sentence of the preamble which baffled me too and I think must have been machine-translated from Japanese. It could so easily have said something like “In several of the across clues the wordplay omits either one or (in one case) three letters of the answer; in the grid these omitted letters all appear within items, with one or two in each item”, or similar. Never mind. At least I’ll have some free time this week to catch up with all the things I put off from last week as that puzzle absorbed a lot of time…!

I’m still baffled by the def for 15d, which I see has been mentioned but the mentions did not yet defog me…

mooncow, if you have the misprint, then the corrected word refers to another entry. There are supposedly 30 quintillion 15ds in that other word.

Indeed Dodgepot. In full 'Why Aye Man"