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   Azed Crossword No. 1750 Solution

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Competition puzzle

Ten entries in the diagram (all real words in Chambers, except one, which is in the New SOED) are, in no special order, the 'major' words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) in the first two lines of a well-known poem completed in 1750, with a misprint of one letter in each. As a possible aid to identifying the entries in question, their clues likewise contain a misprint of one letter in each, always in the definition part. These misprints (not the original letters) may be arranged to form the popular title of the poem. All other clues are normal. Competitors should submit with their solutions a normal cryptic clue to the next 'major' word in the poem (the first in the third line), one of nine letters.

The Chambers Dictionary (2003) is recommended, but does not specify one foreign plural form.

     
123 45 678 910
11     12  13   
14    15    16  
17      18     
19     20    21 
   2223  24    25
26      2728    
2930   31   32   
   33    34    
35   36  37     
38    39       
     
Across
1 Like off-key basses at La Scala, 'ruining Tosca' (Dir.) (8)
7 Lines found in turning fixed slabs (5)
11 Wager we got back after what roulette produces? (6)
12 Deserted railway grid (3)
13 Hard wood pot, knot not removed (4)
14 Deliver homily on being given degree? (5)
15 Field after harvest, somewhat exposed with initial cut (5)
17 Small number entering scratch round (4)
18 Roaster nobody's stoked with this cooking fuel (6)
19 Record pike rendered helpless? (6)
20 Vegetable, one packed in special hamper (7)
26 Old-fashioned truncheons excessively used in proscriptions (7)
27 Like Welsh leading Ireland, in far from straightforward fashion (6)
29 Priest is pocketing gold for senior monks (6)
32 Voice part central for English composer (William) (4)
33 Artist against capturing the writer in proportion (5)
34 Glycerine compound wreath has on outside (5)
35 Dim yellow centre of burner does (4)
36 Alloy: it's regularly used in alberts (3)
37 Scalding end of summer due (6)
38 Move to prey? Wild elk's not once caught (5)
39 Express hum in unusual rendering of Dies (8)
 
Down
1 Cunning, about to subdue with threatening blows (6)
2 Oddities like this will turn up in papal court (7)
3 Butterfly: hurried to catch one in observation post (9)
4 Break for Scotch or one of the nasty spirits, English (5)
5 Bestows a conflict medal? Not quite (6)
6 In abattoir I studied portion of eye (4)
7 Orcadian sea bird, yet it's found wandering (6)
8 Oil-forming gas, what (literally) you'll find in middle of beer (6)
9 Hill in Scotland with almost no expanse of grass (4)
10 Winter sporting item, old, in Shetland chalet? (4)
12 Formal attire: when it's beaten, dust rises (9, 2 words)
16 Dyestuff Betsy alternatively tipped in the sea (mostly)? (9)
21 Like Indian moving in bendy rig? Can't - bust (7)
22 Antique table inlaid with gold remained in Scotland (6)
23 Dubious Shakespearian term to all intents and purposes a letter short (6)
24 Top record labels, those responsible for military bands (6)
25 Gym fitted with pine as old-fashioned dive (6)
28 Uprising of detainees capturing second in command in dawn raid? (5)
29 Quibble over a bit of knowledge being a worthless thing (4)
30 Local watercourse at no time seen to rise (4)
31 Circumstances for Spenser making last of his output more weird? (4)
     


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