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Inquisitor 1325: Stopping Service solution

This being a recent Inquisitor there is both a blog at fifteensquared:

Inquisitor 1325: Stopping Service by Phi

And a blog by myself on this site:

Stopping Service

Having just reread the fifteensquared comments, I think I would justify the grumbles about only some Ls being removed from answers by noting that Beeching didn’t actually cull all lines…

 

Filled solution grid

Flanders and Swann’s SLOW TRAIN lamented the loss of railway lines (L removed from down entries) and particularly stations, including those at BLANDFORD FORUM, CHESLYN HAY, MIDSOMER NORTON and MUMBY ROAD. Another (MORTEHOE) emerged from extra letters in down wordplay, and a sixth – the appropriately-named CHITTENING PLATFORM – from across misprints.

ACROSS

10           LIE; l i.e. bounCer

11           ELENCHI; El(l)en chi; cHeating

12           AVAIL; I in aval; aId

14           THUD; h in dut(y) (rev.); Thump

15           OCHEROUS; anag; painT

16           DITCHER; itch in der; Ea

19           FORGE; for GE; coiN

20           STROAM; OR (rev.) in stam(p); drIft

23           LESLIE; l(I)es lie; Name

24           RICHLY; h in anag; Grand

26           DZEREN; z in anag. + n; leaPing

27           REGAN; e,g in ran; Lear

29           CHICANO; chic a + on (rev.); mAn

30           ONONDAGA; on on dag A; Tribe

34           RAGI; rag I; Food

35           GEMOT; G + to me (rev.); moOt

36           UROSOME; anag. + some; reaR

37           IDO; I do; idioM

DOWN

1              SI(L)VA; 2 mngs.

2              LEAF TRACE; anag. inc. M

3              OLIO; Oil (rev.) in (c)oo(k)

4              WELCHER; we l cherR(y)

5              RE(LL)IE; I in e’er (rev.)

6              ANTRORSE; anT + anag.

7              ICHOR; I ch orE

14           (L)IONIZE; anag. in i.e.

15           GA(L)I(L)EAN; A1 in gean

18           OLIGAEMIA; Holi + anag. + a

19           PHRENISM; anag. inc. O

22           TRIGGER; Egg in trier

25           FOGOU; fog Mo u

28           DOOB; do + boY (rev.)

29           AERO; a + Core (rev.)

30           TODD; toddY

 
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