From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles.crosswords
Subject: Spoiler, by Xrn (REPOST)
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:43:49 GMT
Reply-To: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Organization: Quantime Ltd, London (software for market research)

Here's something I originally posted
before there was a rec.puzzles.crosswords.
Some of the words may be unfamiliar.
There are inevitably a few Britishisms used
(though I don't think any of the answers use non-US spellings).
I tried to make the clues easier than I normally would,
at the expense of elegance, sometimes,
but there may still be a few traps.

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Spoiler, by Xrn
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Half the Across answers, and half the Down answers, are to be encoded
using a substitution code before entry in the diagram.  The completed
diagram's diagonals give a clue to the setter's pseudonym.

Across
1    Snappy English homosexual living in New York (5)
6    Unnatural monster entrapped by G-man (6)
11   Drab oil spills betraying wrasse (7)
12   For starters, leis usually adorn us at this feast (4)
13   Russian writer's pronounced pay deductions for being in the
     union (in the Union) (9)
15   Affair swamping one's office work (6)
16   Duplicator one operates partially? (5)
17   Noxious weed, he gets around letter censorship (7)
19   Sprayed at rages, it makes the eyes water (7)
22   Pom laid out paper with graduations on (7)
25   Indian plant making rain dance with LBJ? (7)
27   Appropriate signature on intimate letters from a princess? (5)
28   Bird favoured right wing (6)
30   Ravishing instrument giant wielded (9)
31   Dawn's depicted in video animation (4)
32   Er, I've, er, shaken absent-mindedness (7)
33   Great shakes around hot group (6)
34   Stop disease finally, wearing a sheath (5)

Down
1    Clyde, gallivanting around clubs, went by bike (6)
2    Gold in former French waters (4)
3    Separate screen dumps (6)
4    Fool ninety in wooded valley (7)
5    Reportedly, essential heavy footwear for agricultural
     settlement (7)
7    Nothing is as outrageous, or Italian (5)
8    Workers in bonds nag with aching twists (9)
9    Madagascan raffia fabric runs: banana shakes (7)
10   Excerpt from literary Don, with 9 letters omitted (5)
14   Quivering mate, mine worker (9)
18   English locality distributed over net (7)
20   I dropped out of serially organised US driving tests (7)
21   Language from "Amarica"? That's wrong (7)
23   Switch ends of rough-edged knife (6)
24   Showing perverse streak, my plans are all on ice (6)
25   Vocal group, etc. to act up (5)
26   More twisted, tangled wire, right? (5)
29   Stray condition posed by Washington (4)

+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----#-----#-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|1    |2    |     |3    |4    #5    #6    |7    |     |8    |9    |10   |
|     |     |     |     |     #     #     |     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----#######-----+-----#-----#######-----#######-----+-----+-----+
|11   |     |     |     |     |     |     #     #12   |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     #     #     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----#######-----+-----+-----#######-----#######-----#-----#-----+
|13   |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     #     #     #     |
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     #     #     #     |
+-----#-----#######-----#-----#-----#######-----#######-----#-----#-----+
|     #     #14   #     #     #     #15   |     |     |     |     |     |
|     #     #     #     #     #     #     |     |     |     |     |     |
+-----#######-----#-----#-----#-----#######-----#######-----+-----+-----+
|16   |     |     |     |     #17   |     |     |     |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     |     #     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
+-----#######-----#-----#-----#-----###################-----+-----#######
|     #18   #     #     #     #19   |20   |21   |     |     |     |     |
|     #     #     #     #     #     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
#######-----#-----#######-----#-----+-----#-----#######-----#-----#######
|22   |     |     |     |     |     |     #     #23   #     #     #24   |
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     #     #     #     #     #     |
#######-----+-----###################-----#-----#-----#-----#######-----+
|25   |     |     |     |26   |     |     #27   |     |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     #     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----#######-----#######-----#-----#-----#-----#######-----+
|28   |     |     |     |     |     #     #     #     #     #29   #     |
|     |     |     |     |     |     #     #     #     #     #     #     |
+-----#-----#-----#######-----#######-----#-----#-----#######-----#-----+
|     #     #     #30   |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
|     #     #     #     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
+-----#-----#-----#######-----#######-----+-----+-----#######-----+-----+
|31   |     |     |     #     #32   |     |     |     |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     #     #     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----#######-----#######-----#-----+-----#######-----+-----+
|33   |     |     |     |     |     #     #34   |     |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     |     |     #     #     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----#-----#-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+

-- 
Roger Phillips                            roger@quantime.co.uk
"dick, (slang) n. fine words (for *dictionary*):  also for *declaration*,
as _to take one's dick_, and prob. _up to dick_, excellent (up to
declared value)." -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)