Apologies for the quality of the solution grid – remarkably difficult to get the red spots on to the solution grid! I don’t know what Dave did here, but he did it better than I can! My spots are bigger, though. One curious coincidence: when I looked at the EV page containing this puzzle, I noted that the solution to 1006 referenced an aspect the theme of the other 2012 puzzle I’d been considering, a theme that cropped around the same time in The Magpie, if I recollect correctly. Jung would have been pleased.
Albert EINSTEIN said ‘NATIONALISM is an INFANTILE SICKNESS. It is the MEASLES of the human race’. Clashes in squares gave the words: STOMP/ESTOP/PASTO/POSTS/PLOTS/PESTO/STOPS. All SPOT + 1. The ‘fifth letters’ in these words spelled MEASLES, and the clashes were to be replaced by red SPOTs.
ACROSS
10 SPARER; par in ser; jazz composition = STOMP
11 UNLOST; anag. solutIon – 0
12 IHRAM; iS h ram
13 KEFFEL; kef + leAf (rev.)
14 PECK; P Neck
15 CAGY; ca. G(ama)y; old bar = ESTOP
18 STINGS; tin g in SS; Colombian city = PASTO
20 WET NURSES; anag. inc. I
23 ANATOLIA; a NATO + Tail (rev.)
26 RANDAN; raIn dan(CE)
27 ABUT; a buSt
30 KAKI; ka kiT
31 DISPLAY; disH play
32 PLIGHT; EP light
33 ASPORT; a s port; jobs = POSTS
34 MISSTEP; miss + pOet (rev.)
DOWN
1 SHIP-OWNER; anag. Fish + n in power
2 ISOTHERE; other in I seT
3 KRAKEN; ark (rev.) + k in Hen
4 NEMN; NE mEn
5 ERKS; He(a)r + last letters
6 SWEET POTATO; anag. inc. oUt
8 ALEGGES; egg in Males
9 IMPLY; I’m plAy
16 ATTENUATORS; anag. inc. t with surplus N
17 BUONAMANI; bu on ARmani
19 SAMARITAN; Rita in As a man
22 ARABISTS; Cab is in arts
24 OIKIST; oik I sEt
25 INKHOSI; anag; plans = PLOTS
27 ADAM; a + mad (rev.); sauce = PESTO
28 HYMN; h,y m,n; prevents = STOPS
29 ROSTIS; ro + sit’s (rev.)
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