Feeling '22
By teamcrazymatt
To celebrate the end of 2021, solvers must make timely changes to
the grid below. All 11 occurrences of a certain letter in the grid
must be changed to another letter - in each case forming a valid
English word - in order to resolve conflicting crossing letters. The
letter that is changed should be placed in the unclued central square.
Fill the grid in properly and you will find a timely wish.
Across
| 1 | First in customer industry primarily going to have element of quality that suggests a response (7,8) |
| 11 | Bashful, in fact, is led down the wrong path (7) |
| 14 | Just ahead, atop west bank of Euphrates (2,3) |
| 17 | Got off clothes for artful intent (4) |
| 18 | Soprano's approach to rock (4) |
| 19 | Station showing the odds of caning (3, init.) |
| 20 | Slides knight, moving to capture first of White rooks (8) |
| 21 | It's cold carrying centrepiece of foliaged small shrubs (6) |
| 23 | Not as many, after greeting Jack, returned extremely unhappy (7) |
| 24 | Caribbean hermit turning around, stout with fatty centre, is taking bow (4,4) |
| 26 | Cookie section's edges turning round (4) |
| 27 | Cutting out old wrongdoing; holding onto constant commotion - grand (10) |
| 29 | Board to continue to obstruct suspension (4) |
| 30 | Middle Eastern country exists when aristocratic and ergatocratic leaders switch (6) |
| 33 | Early in life, one's focus is on an ice cream (6) |
| 34 | See 39d |
| 35 | Confusion as crook chases Troy (6) |
| 37 | Ditch speck of grain from field (4) |
| 40 | Infiltrated ground without beginning to feel about part of the shore (10) |
| 43 | "Ladder! Stepladder! Ladder! Stepladder!" That's a laugh (2,2) |
| 44 | Daddy ran around with three Egyptians and is looking tired? (4-4) |
| 46 | Pierce's hood half-heartedly put over heads of attractive youth (7) |
| 48 | Setter starting to smell raw fish - it might have happened too soon (1,5) |
| 49 | Monk beginning to start exercising, about to take walk (8) |
| 51 | Preowned selection of old car maker (3) |
| 52 | Turned on? More than once? You shouldn't have done this (2-2) |
| 54 | American makes out, freshens boobs (4) |
| 55, 32d | 55, 32dVery plain tailor cleans a brace (5,2,3,2) |
| 56 | Trainer's extremely grumpy, standing by demolished homes (3,4) |
| 57 | Rapidly getting prompt wrong (5,3,3,4) |
Down
| 2 | Naked burglar caught by setter: coming up in Parasite (7) |
| 3 | Have little following hint of dark secret (7) |
| 4 | Charles' little girl, millennial, is somewhat looking up (4) |
| 5 | African plants a ton in outermost of quarters (4) |
| 6 | Broken 'n' rusting with extreme disuse, like an out-of-use violin (10) |
| 7 | Make out with agent (3) |
| 8 | Boost to infinite good (5) |
| 9 | Heal tip of nose after driving, possibly (6) |
| 10 | Any random piece of statute gets no votes (4) |
| 11 | Insult union of Edward and Bitty (10) |
| 12 | Support father by heading to employment (4) |
| 13 | Colours top of 'do? Indeed (4) |
| 15 | Infuriate commission with German becoming king (6) |
| 16 | Essentially native viewpoint, one like the Dalai Lama (7) |
| 21 | Kind measure of rolling song in ebony (6) |
| 22 | Star Wars character prepared to abandon spot (3) |
| 25 | Herb's improper rebuttal about two students (4,6) |
| 27 | Content to revile wrong (4) |
| 28 | Opened up Mars bar about to be rotten (7,3) |
| 29 | Perceive mean urgences every so often, in retrospect (6) |
| 31 | Main terminal in Bristol is secure (4) |
| 32 | See 55a |
| 36 | Non-profit youth organization starts to arrange invitational events, strongly exhibiting charity (6, init.) |
| 38 | Intense fear of soup is kept in check by exhausted bum (7) |
| 39, 34a | 39, 34aThe smell of men'll noisily bring forth children's doctor? (7,6) |
| 41 | Hack boarded Scotsman turning up in Naples? In Naples (6) |
| 42 | Don't start to follow cry of fright (3) |
| 45 | Pharmacist's, until finished, beginning to crack (5) |
| 46 | Town fare is cocked up (4) |
| 47 | Retro writing that's Arabic! (4) |
| 48 | Residents of Eire beginning to ask question of nation (4) |
| 49 | One under Bond coming up is mostly raw (4) |
| 50 | Dude starts to become rash, with hesitation (4) |
| 53 | Endlessly waters tree (3) |
