Also a late entry after sitting on an unfilled 5d for quit a few days – eventually opted for HUNTERS like a few others and was wrong – haven’t heard of the Conservative HUNKERS before – so admit defeat!

Like scchua I had opted for ACKEYS as well – ACKERS in Aust refers to a teenager’s pimples !! Couldn’t find a direct reference for ACKERS when solving, but now see that it is Nth English slang for banknotes.

So in this one concede – Gordius 2 / Bruce 0

I don’t buy “strait and narrow”. Chambers (2011 p. 1537) won’t quite get one there – strait can become straight, but not the other way around. As solved, it simply isn’t a real phrase that matches the definition. I could see it being used where “synonyms” was elsewhere in the puzzle, built on a homonym type clue for “in the right way”.

Too bad there isn’t a malady spelled P?R?O?A, for symmetry’s sake!

Plenty of fun though, thanks manehi & alia for the blog and Gordius for the unraveling.

Robi @13, RCW @16 and Grandpuzzler @20:
‘strait’, therefore, is a misspelling of ‘straight’, clearly not one that any of you would make. In fact, I suspect that very few people would. Much more likely would be misspellings (the other way) of such as ‘straitjacket’, ‘strait-laced’, ‘strait of Gibraltar’, ‘straitened circumstances’ and ‘dire straits’ – less so in this case thanks to Dire Straits.

(Giovanna @18: Your Chambers is by definition old and almost certainly non-standard.
Sorry,I don’t know how to do smileys.)

However, in the context of ‘straight and narrow’, ‘strait’ is not merely a misspelling but, more seriously a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word.
Gervase @23 does a good job of explaining.

He manages despite being hampered by the suggestion in the link by Robi @14 that the origin of the phrase is “perhaps an alteration of … an allusion to” something.
This is so tenuous as to be insupportable whatever the something. In this case it is also regrettable that the reference is to Matthew 7:14, a good example of why some regard the King James Bible as the finest single work in the English language. Again Gervase elucidates the quotation very well.

‘strait and narrow’ he describes as tautologous – more precisely it is pleonastic. (Wey hey!) This brings us nicely to tupu @25 and RCW @28 and redundancy. (‘pleonasm’ means redundancy, esp of words.) Their observations, while interesting and valid, cannot justify the appearance of ‘strait and narrow’ in a crossword. It is simply not valid.

19 is a triple definition, isn’t it?

And one gripe: why the word ‘time’ in 10? Totally unnecessary and misleading! Yes, the surface wouldn’t work without it, but then the clue should be rewritten. Gripe over!