Twisted Meanings
Across
- 4. Disliked by losers (8)
- 9. Unreserved praise (7)
- 11. A difference of opinion (11)
- 12. An oxymoron having obligatory exclamation (3)
- 13. Almost unreal (7)
- 18. Unwilling to sacrifice all (7)
- 20. Self-proclaimed expertise (9)
- 21. Idiomatic description of hot air (9)
- 24. One who wears heart on sleeve (10)
- 29. Self-congratulatory one-upmanship (9)
- 30. Exchange of escalating abuse (8)
- 32. In which fear is encouraged to flourish (7)
- 34. Non-recognition of fundamental differences (8)
- 36. Do as I say, not what I do (10)
- 38. Not yet rediscovered or reinvented (8)
- 40. Having no smart phone (12)
- 42. Typically irrelevant (10)
- 44. The right to bear grudges (15)
- 46. Pointless, meandering conversation (10)
- 47. Someone else’s problem (7)
Down
- 1. Not politically correct (13)
- 2. Elusive and variable quality of rightness (5)
- 3. Undeniably blameworthy (11)
- 5. One who pronounces wiv as with (7)
- 6. Heinous misunderstanding (9)
- 7. Uniquely jargonistic claptrap: see 21 (7,9)
- 8. Consolidated common law (6,5)
- 10. Derived from extraneous source (10)
- 14. Unfair advantage (5)
- 15. Exclusively others’ tradition and practice (7)
- 16. Subjective view of preference (4)
- 17. A place to live free (6)
- 19. An invitation to ridicule or attack (8)
- 22. Respectable social messaging service (8)
- 23. Once meant when, now devoid of all meaning (2,3,6)
- 25. The route to endless indecision (6)
- 26. Empirical religion (7)
- 27. Prefix or suffix to twaddle (3,4)
- 28. Mandatory condemnation before the fact (9)
- 31. Capable of making money forever (11)
- 32. Person below the age of 30 (5)
- 33. Sole prerogative of London cabbies (9)
- 35. Older than 60 (6-4)
- 37. Doom of which we dare not speak its name (5)
- 39. Not treated with effusive deference (7)
- 41. Artistic self-expression (9)
- 43. Rediscovered or reinvented (3)
- 45. The unequivocal expectation of peer worship (6)