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Enigmatic Variations No. 880: Revelation

Blank crossword grid

One letter falls from a word in each of nine columns, landing in the bottom row, where it contributes to two words starting the REVELATION. The wordplay and length in the relevant clues refer to the grid entry. Ten across answers are entered in jumbled form; the initial letters of their clues form the last three words of the REVELATION (a thematic verb links the two parts). The possibility of alternative solutions can be addressed by identifying and highlighting thematic material behaving appropriately in the other four columns. One thematic item is not given by Chambers, but is in the ODE.

ACROSS

1              Found mute bird, degraded once (8)

6              English fragments recalled in culminating inspiration (5)

10           Spray of jewels, one I rue not keeping about (6)

11           Returned a carrot, initially with crudely trimming edges, with mark of cross on stem (6)

12           Bakery employee removing front of kitchen utensil (4)

13           Orchid misrepresented dull, according to visually impaired person (9)

14           Melbourne thief avoids helicopter (10)

17           Heavy metal utensil capable of making inroads (7)

20           Memories – English and French things, not one special (6)

21           Yellowish front to sales permit (6)

23           Arranged old weapon’s point, suppressing injury as before (7)

27           Elite sailor, brought in unaltered, showing lung disease (10)

28           You’ll see mite, one acid rain destroyed (9)

29           No longer disguise lower profit on each occasion in the past (4)

30           Exhibition area showing potato in tin (6)

31           Believable? Only 75% likely to promote scoffing! (6)

32           One King in time providing image (5)

33           Sure plane, say, has got to Norway last night from Scotland (8)

DOWN

1              Platform filled with knockout drums (6)

2              Discharged, say? Tried to depose leader (7)

3              Naughty child having little time with educational staples, absorbing nothing (5)

4              Poet’s after the North, covered in ice (7)

5              Symbols of love I’d encountered in successful periods (5)

6              Part of arch sorted out to receive cross (7)

7              A rug held up as a cape (4)

8              Health workers refuse to accept first of casualties after resistance (7, 2 words)

9              Arab instrument linked to a North African republic (5)

15           Sign of unhappiness with exclusion of a small car in bus stations (7)

16           Historic trading-station operated computer language (7)

18           Everyone kills fish (7)

19           Old doll and book dropped in horseplay with horse (7)

22           Ship starts to wallow and roll going round sound (6)

23           Beer without head given to strange young child (5)

24           Party with fruitcake and another sweet treat (5)

25           Whimper after sun goes, getting upset – lightning as before (5)

26           Old collar is obstructing work (4)

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