It falls to my lot to blog this brilliant piece of work which was published on the day the TLS takes a holiday. The subtle theme taken from Diary of a Nobody took a long time to get established, especially as the absence of a grid and the stunningly deceptive blank where 1 across should have been demanded exceptional decypherng skills. In no time at all, I decided to Google "nothing" but drew a complete blank, except for a meaningless link to Jean Paul Sartre's immortal, but strangely incomplete "And Nothingness". Thinking (a propos of nothing) of Shirley Bassey belting out "I, I who have nothing" (today's earworm, at no cost to the readership), I realised that somewhere along the line, Nemo had reached for the Nirvana of neither being nor not being, and had told being to take a hike. With a headache growing at this persistent lack of existence, and with none of the completely absent clues solved, I reached for my empty bottle of pills, because nothing works faster than Anadin.
Below is my reasoning, with the usual clue, definition, SOLUTION
Across
Down
Below is my reasoning, with the usual clue, definition, SOLUTION
Across
Down