If you make me a cup of tea, you make for me a cup of tea.

Taking ‘one’ as the third person pronoun, as in ‘taking one’s time’ then…

Rearranging the letters of ‘craft in’ makes one a word meaning distraught, i.e. it makes a word meaning distraught for one.

The prefix ur- was new to me, as was the minim = drop meaning, and this was a very entertaining puzzle.

Considering that Audi continued the model for 3 years in RHD-only for export to Britain, this German word is almost a Britishism!

I missed “M” for thousand and “to be knocked” as an anagrind so missed 9D, and know nothing of this “tennis” so missed 16D. Perhaps getting anywhere near MINIM might have helped with both of those.

Thanks Handel and Araucaria!

As to the ‘one’ discussion, I do not want to turn this into a major thing – however, I still think there’s some truth in what I said [although, I must say, 'what we said', because my famous PinC (a teacher in English) had just as many reservations as I had].
[in the Pasquale blog it wasn't me who started it, but Martin H]

Let there be no misunderstanding: intuitively, we did understand that we had to look for a word [an adjective] meaning ‘distraught’.
The ‘feel’ of the surface is clear to us, and sorry PS, the Internet link you gave us is not particularly related to what we wanted to say.

One [ ] can look at this clue (ánd Pasquale’s) in two ways.
(1)
Let’s call ‘Craft in trouble’: X.
The X makes one distraught.
X is the ‘thing’ that leads to a situation of being ‘distraught’.
So, one might say, ‘distraught’ is the result of that.
And therefore: FRANTIC.
We are not sure, though, whether the “situation of being ‘distraught’” justifies an adjective, but our intuition says: well, all right then.
(2)
From a grammatical point of view, the clue can be read as:
X makes [meaning indeed, Roger, 'and the answer is'] ‘one distraught’ [which would suggest a person, so a noun - something that you say too, Roger, but then you call that an adjective ??].

I know, it’s not proper English, but “Craft in trouble makes distraught”, thát would be something suggesting an adjective from a grammatical POV.
See our point?

But all you out there, we don’t want to make too much of a fuss.
When two of the most seasoned (and admired) setters go for it, well, then they must be right.

Frantic – wasn’t that an album by Bryan Ferry?
Yep – let’s put that one in the cd-player and forget about all this .

BTW, it wás a pretty good crossword.

Please don’t complain as this had happened before and, I think, it pushed Rev JG into top gear resulting in me gazing at some blank spaces.

This wesbiste has vastly improved my solving and now, at least, I can understand some of the answers instead of puzzling over them at breakfast the next day and filling in the blanks. Also,this is much more enjoyable and educational learning from such sources as the erudite Eileen; an excellent example of the power of Web 2.0

Sil van den Hoek comments in no 31 and elswhere on the use of one as in “one is not amused”. The use of one in ‘Craft in trouble makes one distraught’ suggests an adjective to me as a description on a person who is, in this case, frantic.
This caused me to refer to such books as Fowler’s Modern English Usage on the subject.
If you have any spare time you might consider visiting For a good account of the use of “one”.
Reading some of the material here would certainly lead to me to think that an adjective is expected. Would not one agree?