Mephisto 2899, Tim Moorey

Rather a surprise – my brother’s family is visiting this weekend on pretty short notice, so I haven’t written up the Mephisto yet. I hope to have it done by mid-afternoon Sunday UK time, in the meantime feel free to post hive mind questions here, I’m sure they will be answered in due course.

And we’re back – the time of eggs and daylight savings is with us all again. This fell in a single solve, most of it without resort to Chambers, so I think we are on the gentler side of the Mephisto, though there are a few unusual wordplay elements you wouldn’t find in the daily puzzle.

Away we go…

Across
1	WOOLSEY: reversal of YES(indeed), LOO(can) and (ne)W
6	SEIS,M: SEI whales pop up more often in wordplay than in the sea
10	REALLOCATE: REAL is an obsolete form of royal, then ALLOCALTE
11	REIF: sounds like REEF
13	ELUTOR: UT(as) in ROLE reversed
14	DECANI: anagram of AND ICE
16	S,HAN
18	SAFETY: SAFE(peter) and the ends of T(rick)Y
19	MELAPHYRE: anagram of PRIME,HALEY less I
20	NUN,’S,FLESH
23	TAHINA: TINA(there is no alternative) containing A(accepted), (suc)H
24	UP TO: since UP TO DATE is a phrase
27	PILL,AU
29	ERAS,ED
30	NOGG: NOGGIN missing IN
31	RIVE,TINGLY
32	Y,ARR,S
33	CRESSET: ESSE(being) in C, RT
Down
1	WORDSMITHERY: WORRY containing an anagram of TIMES,HAD without the first letter of A(rts)
2	OGEE: sounds like OH GEE
3	ORICALCHE: anagram of OR,CHALICE
4	SANNUP: ANN inside SUP
5	YLEM: MERELY reversed missing the middle two letters
6	SOLLAR: ALL reversed in SOAR missing A – landing between ladders
7	ECUS: every third letter in frEe aCcoUntS
8	STOUT,EST
9	MERRY,THOUGHT
12	MISHNA: IS,H on NA after M(ischief)
15	REDE,PLOYS
17	HETAIRIA: I in ARIA under (THE)*
18	SYSOPS: reversal of S,POSYS
21	UNGETS: BUNG BETS with both B’s removed
22	FRINGE: FINGER with the R moved up
25	USER: the second half of CAROUSER for a right long established
26	ODIC: MELODIC missing MEL (B from the Spice Girld)
28	A,GEE