I think I was 50/50 on having the advantage here – I was very familiar with the name for rivers in the US, particularly in the Dutch-settled areas of Pennsylvania. On the other hand I didn’t feel good about dredging up the name of a protein that also turned out to be a minister from 50 years ago.
Some generous anagrams around the outside made this an exercise from the outside in, though I recall finishing in the upper right corner.
Away we go…
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | FUNAMBULATED: anagram of FAT,UNABLE and MUD |
| 9 | PENSIL: ENS(being) inside LIP reversed |
| 12 | ROBLE: R(king) then NOBLE missing the first letter |
| 13 | DYTICUS: I,C(see) in an anagram of STUDY |
| 14 | SOBA: S.O.B. then A |
| 15 | MERI,NO |
| 16 | EPICARP: anagram of PIE, then CARP |
| 17 | NOT-I: IT, ON all reversed |
| 20 | KA,CHINA |
| 23 | SAHARAN: A,HAS all reversed then RAIN missing I |
| 25 | DIV,A |
| 27 | SERIATE: anagram of TERESA,I |
| 29 | LINT,IE: variation of LINNET |
| 31 |
BLIN: BLIN |
| 32 |
LACUNAR: LUNAR(silver) with A,C |
| 33 |
ABIDE: ID |
| 34 | KILL,AS: in the Northeast of the US you’ll find a lot of rivers with -KILL at the end of the name, such as the Schuylkill river that runs through Philadelphia |
| 35 | RESTRINGENTS: REST IN GENTS containing R |
| Down | |
| 1 | FORSET-SELLER: FELLER(man) containing an anagram of STORES |
| 2 | NEBBISH: NEB(bill) then BISHOP missing OP |
| 3 | ANLACE: ANL (Anti Nazi League) then ACE |
| 4 |
BIDARKA: BIA |
| 5 | LATENCE: TEN in LACE – unless it is TEN in LACY |
| 6 | AMIR: RIMA reversed |
| 7 | TACIT: TACT holding I |
| 8 | DESOLATENESS: anagram of TO,ENDLESS,SEA |
| 10 |
SERA: S |
| 11 |
TUNING: TURNING(deviation) missing |
| 18 | RADIAN: RADIANT missing T |
| 19 | GRAINER: RA in GIN, then ER |
| 21 | ANEURIN: a reference to ANEURIN Bevan |
| 22 | IDALIAN: of Aphrodite – Princess IDA then NAIL reversed |
| 24 | WIBBLE: WILE containing alternative letters in BaBy |
| 26 |
INCUS: INCURS losing |
| 28 |
REAL: I think this is meant to be |
| 30 | TUFT: hidden reversed in brillianT FUTure |
Agree LATENCE for 5D
Experience as yours for anagrams but knew Bevan of course, not so familiar with US rivers
I thought it was
memoRIAL too. And I think 5dn has to be LATENCE.I nearly put BABBLE at 24dn. One of the meanings of BALE in Chambers is ‘mischief’, which seemed quite close to ‘trick’. Not quite close enough, fortunately.