11ac not valid. You cannot say ‘those are my car’ or ‘that is my wheels’ so wheels and car are not interchangeable in your example. However, I would be happy to accept that ‘a set of wheels’ can equate with ‘car’. I have never met anyone who has misinterpreted TBA so I am not sure where you get your ‘common’ from and I don’t think we should need to anticipate what might or might not be included in a future edition of a dictionary.

22ac As I indicated earlier, had the clue been ‘and after’ or, as you have indirectly indicated, ‘and now’ then I would have no problem with this clue.

28ac Sorry, I definitely cannot agree with you on this one, the two words do not mean the same thing. In all the standard dictionaries, ‘gore’ is defined as “(of an animal such as a bull) to pierce or stab with a horn or tusk” whereas ‘gut’ is defined as “to remove the internal organs (of a fish or other animal) before cooking”. I have used the definitions from COED in this instance but Collins and Chambers are similar.

3dn You have picked up on one I missed first time round. ‘Thy’ is the possessive pronoun or adjective meaning ‘of thee’ or ‘belonging to or associated with thee’, in other words an archaic version of ‘your’. It does not therefore mean ‘for you’ or just ‘you’ so another quibble to add to the list.

18dn I acknowledge your greater depth of knowledge regarding mathematics but ‘geometric’ is, as you say, an adjective meaning ” of, relating to, or following the methods and principles of geometry”. ‘Studying figures’ cannot be used as an adjective which in my book rules it out as a definition, and I am struggling to find an example where your alternative ‘figure-studying’ would be suitable as an adjective. It certainly wouldn’t in the usual usages such as ‘a geometric shape’ or ‘geometric progression’.

21dn I didn’t object to ‘entrée’ being defined as ‘main course’. As indicated in my blog it is in Chambers. It is also defined this way in COED and Collins but both Collins and Chambers indicate that this usage, as opposed to a dish served before the main course, is chiefly confined to the US or N. America.

The first half of the book follows the path of a Pak named Phssthpok who has travelled from the Pak homeworld in search of a colony of Pak in the distant system of Sol (our solar system). Upon his arrival, he captures a Belter (a worker from the asteroid belt) named Jack Brennan, who is infected by Phssthpok’s store of tree-of-life root and is transformed into a protector (or at least a human variant). They land on Mars where Brennan kills Phssthpok and is rescued by two humans, Nick Sohl and Lucas Garner, who had set out to meet the alien. The first half of the novel ends with Brennan telling his story to the humans before he heads for the outer reaches of the solar system.

That’s the sort of name it is.

14ac Yes, I was thinking of D=down but I now see that this abbreviation is not included in Chambers, Collins or COED so another quibble. In fact there doesn’t appear to be an abbreviation for down.

22ac I see what you are trying to get at but I still don’t think it works (at least not for me). It might just have done if the clue had been “Before no good invasion screamed and after recoiled”.

11ac: TBA (To Be Added) can be found in Abbreviations.com on line.

14ac: Did you mean D(Down) for the other way?

22ac: I read the subsidiary indication as meaning ‘before an invasion of NG, we have a word for screamed’.
(This may be much the same as your interpretation).

16ac: ‘crazy n (inf) a crazy person’ is given in Chambers.
15dn: I think ‘clothes’ is the insertion indicator, with ‘don’ meaning ‘to put on’.