QC 3005 by Wurm

I’m not really a fan but two of his celebrated pieces are Paul Revere’s Ride and The Song of Hiawatha.

Ding-dong for a fight is slang from the 18th century, and it is ofren prefixed by “in a right” as in this clue, and it definitely has a London feel to it, so all in this is an excellent clue, which also contains the “from Bow” misdirection: no dropped H or Rhyming Slang is needed.

If you figure that you need a 2 character Greek letter (because the anagrist has seven letters) that narrows it down a bit.

Very nice, and also true. Nitrogen (in fact any gases) weren’t named and discovered until the 1770s, some 150 years after Newton.

Excellent word, we should be using it more.

This was my LOI and I was surprised it was right, as I don’t really see BLOWS=Blasts. But this famous sentence  : “You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off”, would work with Blast.

“Regulated” is a rather odd anagram indicator. If a set of items is regulated, is it mixed up?

Tough one, as Liros also parses, and I had only barely heard of Loris. They are a small arboreal primate with grey or black fur, large eyes, and look very cute.Female lorises practice infant parking, leaving their infants behind in trees or bushes.

“No way José” being an expression of disbelief. The OED can’t find any reference before 1979, but it feels older to me. It’s just a rhyme, but I expect tour guides are already  making up derivations, by citing a story about some guy called Jose.

In some other puzzle recently,  JOSE was clued as “No way, man!”

It’s easy to forget the rule that if the number is less than 30, and written in numerals its worth checking for a cross-reference.

FLAME=love is usually used in the expression “an old flame”

A race with three stages might be said to have three legs.

Three crossword staples in a row. If you’ve never come across them, all worth remembering. The first being military slang for Other Ranks, who are not officers, but “men”. Goodness knows what they say now that most of the armed forces contain female “men”.

 This shade of pink is often used to represent the color of salmon meat, and it can be rendered online as  an RGB colour (255, 145, 164).

Fanous for the Owl and the Pussycat, he also wrote hunderds of limericks which are all rubbish, because he could never think of a third rhyme and just duplicated the word at the ends of the first and fifth lines.

See=contemplate? In the expression, “Let me see”, I suppose.

You know it’s rough when you’re a Scots Hero , but most people still think of you as the cheese-obsessed inventor. WALLACE went from “They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!” to “We’ve forgotten the crackers, Gromit!”

If something is AFOOT, it is imminent, or cooking.

The long dash, like the one above is called an EM dash because it is uspposed to be the width of an M. I like them, and it is one of the few keyboard shortcuts I know (Alt 0151 in windows). But they are now to be avoided because ChatGPT like sthem, and if you use them, people think you are a robot.