01 September 2021

Look It This Way

Preamble 

All answers are six letters in length.  Some clues have a misprint in their definition, the correct letters for which, in clue order, indicate the new position for a specific entry.  An instruction in the completed grid leads to a further indication how this should be achieved.  The final positions of all other entries must follow the same method.  Three otherwise extraneous words confirm the direction of travel.  If we LOOK AT IT THIS WAY, all entries should be capable of conventional reading after compliance with all instructions.  Solvers are advised to use a pencil.  

Initial Grid

Final Grid


Corrections to misprints in odd clues spell “ONE ACROSS IS NINE DOWN”.  The completed grid provides the instruction “READ LAST LETTER OF EACH EVEN CLUE” which then gives “TURN THROUGH RIGHT ANGLE”.  Extraneous words are DEXTRORSE, LAEVOROTATORY and WITHERSHINS indicating the ANTICLOCKWISE rotation required, so that the grid should be turned such that NINE DOWN fills the ONE ACROSS slot.  The grid should therefore be re-written having been turned through 90 degrees and be able to be read from the right hand edge (else some entries will only be readable in reverse).

Across

LAST LETTER OF CLUES

MISPRINT CORRECTIONS

 

Down

LAST LETTER OF CLUES

MISPRINT CORRECTIONS

1 condos

 

O

 

1 Conrad

 

I

6 tsuris

T

 

 

2 oneyre

R

 

11 sheepo

 

N

 

3 Naples 

 

S

12 nephew

U

 

 

4 O'Neill

I

 

13 etalon  

 

E

 

5 saw set

 

N

14 stogie

R

 

 

6 tsetse

G

 

15 areole

 

A

 

7 shtoom

 

I

16 soever

N

 

 

8 relive

H

 

17 desalt  

 

C

 

9 sonars 

 

N

18 emeers

T

 

 

10 throat

T

 

20 captan

H

 

 

19 eerily 

 

E

24 Shebat

R

 

 

20 collar

A

 

29 onside  

 

R

 

21 pseudo

 

D

30 Caruso

O

 

 

22 adieus

N

 

31 aerial  

 

O

 

23 nearly 

 

O

32 louder

U

 

 

24 sclaff

G

 

33 all but  

 

S

 

25 halloa 

 

W

34 aidful

G

 

 

26 bumble

L

 

35 rootsy  

 

S

 

27 asquat

 

N

36 facete

H

 

 

28 toetoe

E

 



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