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Persuasion solution

This puzzle has both a solver’s blog on fifteensquared and a setter’s blog elsewhere on this site.

Cuius testiculos habes habeas cardia et cerebellum is a ‘translation’ of WHEN YOU HAVE THEIR FULL ATTENTION IN YOUR GRIP, THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS WILL FOLLOW. Each of the undefined entries was a synonym of BALL.

ACROSS

9            LAKSHMI; anag; Smith the newsagent = WH

11           ILIAC; I l I a/c; little space = EN

12           LLANO; all (rev.) + no; call for effort = YO

13           ETA; hidden; negation half expressed = UH(-uh)

14           ESSIE; ess + i.e; Bible = AV

16           PILL; P ill

17           BASALT; basal t; extraterrestrial = ET

19           DISCO; hidden; explosive = HE

20           ESPOUSAL; ESP + U in anag; taxmen = IR

24           GALABEAH ; gala be a h; a lot of fun = FU

26           EPEES; EP + see (rev.); lines = LL

28           ANGORA; go in an RA; empty art = AT

30           CURL; cur l; most of tea = TE

32           EASEL; ease l; location of Gospels = NT

34           ORB; O RB

35           HORAE; ho + ear (rev.); cry of joy = IO

36           ELIAN; I in elan; turned in = NI

37           ISOBARS; B in I soars; US city = NY

DOWN

1              MALTASE; sat (rev.) in male; University broadcast = OU

2              USNEA; ne in USA; turning gross = RG

3              UMPS; (b)umps; rule one = RI

4              SILICA; C in is (rev.) + ail (rev.); point = PT

5              TIRED; R in tied; man = HE

6              ELAPID; ale (rev.) + dip (rev.); bird’s heart = IR

7              SIGISBEO; i.e. is in sig be o; ambassador = HE

8              TAIL; a in lit. (rev.); Arab = AR

10           KAA; initial letters; overturning stone = TS

15           SLUG; slu(n)g; article = AN

18           SPHEROID; hero in dips (rev.)

21           LANE; a n in le; European currency no longer = DM

22           CARRARA; car rara; fashionable = IN

23           CELLAR;’seller’; from the sign = DS

25           ATAXIC; a taxi C; Caribbean area = WI

27           SENNA; ann(ex)es (rev.); Lord Lieutenant = LL

29           GLOBE; l in go be

31           UGLI; hidden; of swirling = FO

33           SASS; as in SS; lecturer repeated = LL

34           ORA; o RA; that hurts = OW

 
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