Flash glad to hear you’re on the mend, but watch those NSAIDs – they can twist your bowel almost as much as your mind. I’m on Elastoplast and Paracetamol.

Re the progness, we’re just about to get the .wavs (the wave files that contain the individual instrument performances) into Big Matey who – he says – will do some magick with them. Following that, I’ll post up some new links.

Thank you Tees for thrashing the drumkit of Indy creativity. I love you darling (but only ’cause you’re a fellow muso).

‘Pon th’ clews, taken in Sil order, IMP EACH I saw as synonymous with ‘everyone having wicked spirit’. In UNORIGINAL, yes, I intended to instruct solvers to place NO RIG on U’s right-hand side, followed by the IN A L. ‘To’ in the ARIoSTO clue is used as in the phrase ‘sixteen ounces to the pound’: that is, there are (in most cases) a certain number of SI or cryptic elements TO any required word or phrase. (I know some folks do not warm to this one, but I’ve always seen it as logical.) BB for King is, I must reluctantly admit, dread definition by example, as B.B. is only one of the many Kings – Mrs Billie Jean is not quite so useful to us logodaedalists – available: but how bored are we with the usual crosswordese? And how accurate is some of that anyway? Bah.

Lastly, the L+IKE thing was the subject of debate in an online pre-publication meeting, in which I stuck up for the L being quite literally behind in any language that’s read from L to R, but also offered the alternative ‘American General left at the front’. So no, it wasn’t a mistake.

Many thanks again, get well soon Flash.

For example, in 2d IMPEACH is given as “everyone having wicked spirit”. Normally IMP would follow EACH – not here ['having' apparently meaning 'having it on top'].

And in UNORIGINAL (26ac) the use of ‘(Not tackle on United’s) right’ is quite misleading/misdirecting [whatever you like]. It must mean here “U+NO RIG hás on the right hand side …”. As ‘right’ is normally not a very neutral word in a clue, I found it on the edge.

Just as others, I got ARISTO without too many problems, though not having heard of Ariosto. I was intially thinking of [d]ANTE (a)round TO – which of course leads to nothing sensible. Yet that little word ‘to’ in the clue was not something I was very keen on today – what does it mean? ‘Leading to the answer’?

And BB for King? Well, I think it’s fine, but I know people who would surely dislike it.
I am probably not literate enough, but I still don’t get the MAILER clue. I see ‘Man of letters’, but can’t parse the second part.

As others, I think Tees made a mistake in 27ac (LIKE).

Still, despite all this, the imagery of the crossword [like the great surface in 8d's EARNING] comes to its rescue.
Tough puzzle, but very enjoyable.