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Enigmatic Variations No. 860: AWOL

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Some parts of clued answers appear to have gone AWOL. In each case, some corroboration is given by a synonym or example of one of the unclued entries. Numbers in brackets refer to grid entries. Chambers (2008) is recommended but does not give two literary proper nouns.

ACROSS

1              Electrician to stop on board (6)

6              Totter to apparatus for acrobatic feat (6)

11           Out of print? Printing unit’s ready for business (4)

12           Carriage losing power in part of France (4)

13           Get in again? Bitter person’s not succeeded (2-5)

15           Compound that is imprisoning junior officer (5)

16           Part of cell not obsolete – it’s in use historically (7)

20           40% of ashes found amongst remains in addition (5)

21           Visiting shelter, tense after a failed crime? (8)

22           Cutting scum covering part of leg (4)

25           Involving senior people, two-thirds of them in television, closing section of channel (3-5)

28           Old shrub branch seen round about rear of grove (5)

30           Moat, barring odd parts, was sufficient for Gothic castle (7)

32           I will follow most of the explanation of Latin and Persian (5)

35           Argyle, say, containing our Scottish herb (7)

36           Fancy edible seaweed? Me neither! (4)

37           Story recalled, linked to date in antiquity no longer (4)

39           Mostly disorganised, accepting European antique coin (6)

DOWN

1              Title of respect one picked up – line covering tomb? (7)

3              A dominant principle showing some discrimination (6)

4              Currency one lost in golf club (4)

6              Woman’s tear not fully seen in the main (6)

7              A French holy man, observed in summer month, wrongly (8)

8              East Anglian girl comes to prominence in dances (8)

9              One’s not hopeful, taking up coat (4)

10           Jewish ritual turning up in old tales (5)

14           Parts of marine creatures seen swimming below empty conduit (6)

17           Begins stone sculpture and other similar things (6)

18           Mistake in Tannhauser’s opening melody jars (8)

19           Weaken old railway carriage after removing first three from train (8)

23           Foolish Scots child about to skive up North (7)

26           Stay longer than Parisian where bird swallows last of nuts (6)

27           See a new mineral turning up in Italian location (6)

28           Obstinate scoundrel circling one fashionable girl (5)

29           Assailed proof clumsily, in blissful ignorance (5)

31           No longer run up clutching right mountaineering aid (4)

33           Pay in advance getting some regular lessons (4)

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