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Something Fishy

Blank crossword grid

The grid pattern has mirror symmetry about the central vertical. Upon completion four squares will be blank. Corrections to misprints in definitions in a number of clues spell out a phrase referencing a title implying an action, though the completed grid indicates a different context. Solvers must move four letters vertically from unchecked positions (leaving real words, ignoring gaps) to confirm the new context. Bars and numbers are not required in submitted solutions.

Across

Went crazy about experimental end to prayer in religious text (two words)

Lamest literary apparatus enthrals one

Articles about cab showing motor problem

Treats ailing with extremes of luxury here? (two words)

New rule, say, one mechanical in scope (two words)

Pam Ayres initially dodging male singer (not English)

Hold on – recalled sailor produced knots one ignored

Contributor to heavy wager arranged round tee

Flow of water, strident, not quiet

Middle East port: a terminus Germany put first

Coax players to throw final series

One abandons old Ford car around old African country

Greeting and a speech mostly concerned with opening

Off the shorts? A drink must involve drop of stout (two words)

Lord kidnapped by old soldier in part of South Africa

 

Down

Way in which English will move North – dash?

Beggar in endless queue for African booze

Clay – it may be fired. used in roofing material?

Men rarely tucking into tasty entrées

Source of tool fixing temperature on grill

Spoil jazz fan over emphatic marking in music

Stage direction – annoyed with version Director cut: bet entry of Portia’s ignored

Boring local used it in upset with fellow about Spain

Augmented reality blocks the brain developing, according to psychologist

They stand gobsmacked about singular poetical work (two words)

African trader getting American drunk about money

Former Middle East leader sparkled endlessly when hosting Arab

Cause rupture in the middle of bones cracked with bar I dropped

Little space in box? Consign to file

Aestival? Fine, and more than half aestival, remarkably

Java’s source of naff location of programmes due to be cut

Slow dance movement, one of many produced by early choral composer, apparently

Racecourse hurdle drilled by a factotum

Local chose Hearts in pack

Section of angle iron? It’s covered by ruddy stuff

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