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Mephisto 2839 - Tim Moorey

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I did this one pretty early on in the week so I'm trying to remember the solving process. I seem to recall having two pretty short sessions, one with Chambers and not being too held up along the way.

In the end I think I have all the wordplay sorted out (with Tim Moorey I can usually figure out answers better from wordplay than from definition so that's par for the course). There was one very tricky clue where two unusual words were used as a container for a third unusual word with three unchecked letters, so that may have held a few up.

Away we go!
Across
1PEA SOUP: PEP surrounding A SOU
7O,RR,A
10SUB(loan),VERSION(account)
11ROTH: take F from FROTH. Probably intended to be Philip ROTH but one of my co-workers is obsessed with Veronica Roth who writes for teens
13RAMATE: RATE(standard) containing A,M
14TROADE: ROAD in T(ynesid)E
16MAAS: A(about) in MAS(house)
18NAVAHO: 0, HAVAN(a) all reversed
20ERGATANERS: (RATES,ANGER)*
21AT UNAWARES: or A TUNA WARES
24TO(for),LING
25MESE: take the N out of MENSE(grace)
28HERALD: HER and then the last half of RIBALD. The Daily Herald in the UK ended in 1964, and the Melbourne Herald in 1990 (merged with the Sun). The one in Miami is still going
30RE,PUT,E
31WIEL: W then LIE with the L at the end
32DEINOTHERE: D, then IE reversed and NOT HERE
33SNAG: double definition
34AGRAFFE: take 1 out of A GIRAFFE
 
Down
1PARAMENT: AMEN(say yes to) in PART(some)
2EYOT: Y in E,OT
3ASTRA(y),GALS
4OB,LAST
5PER(a),EN(space),NATES(behind)
6GR,AE,AE: AE meaning both aged and one
7OS,MO
8ROTCHIES: ROT then CHINES(ravines) without the N
9ANEW: WEN(cyst),A reversed
12NDRANGHETA: RANG in (AND,THE)*
15BAS-RELIEF: (BRIEF,SALE)* for those of you new to Mephisto, hyphenated words are not indicated as such
17ARMOZEEN: ARM,EEN containing OZ
19ORSEILLE: ORLE(heraldic border) containing SEIL(strain)
22UNSTOW: U then (TOWNS)*
23WARDER(prison guard): RED and RAW revsered
26ORDS: WORDS without W
27TUN,G
29DELF: FLED reversed

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