Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Puzzle No. 39: Feeling '22

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.
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Squares filled: 0/225
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Across
1First in customer industry primarily going to have element of quality that suggests a response (7,8)
11Bashful, in fact, is led down the wrong path (7)
14Just ahead, atop west bank of Euphrates (2,3)
17Got off clothes for artful intent (4)
18Soprano's approach to rock (4)
19Station showing the odds of caning (3, init.)
20Slides knight, moving to capture first of White rooks (8)
21It's cold carrying centrepiece of foliaged small shrubs (6)
23Not as many, after greeting Jack, returned extremely unhappy (7)
24Caribbean hermit turning around, stout with fatty centre, is taking bow (4,4)
26Cookie section's edges turning round (4)
27Cutting out old wrongdoing; holding onto constant commotion - grand (10)
29Board to continue to obstruct suspension (4)
30Middle Eastern country exists when aristocratic and ergatocratic leaders switch (6)
33Early in life, one's focus is on an ice cream (6)
34See 39d
35Confusion as crook chases Troy (6)
37Ditch speck of grain from field (4)
40Infiltrated ground without beginning to feel about part of the shore (10)
43"Ladder! Stepladder! Ladder! Stepladder!" That's a laugh (2,2)
44Daddy ran around with three Egyptians and is looking tired? (4-4)
46Pierce's hood half-heartedly put over heads of attractive youth (7)
48Setter starting to smell raw fish - it might have happened too soon (1,5)
49Monk beginning to start exercising, about to take walk (8)
51Preowned selection of old car maker (3)
52Turned on? More than once? You shouldn't have done this (2-2)
54American makes out, freshens boobs (4)
55, 32d55, 32dVery plain tailor cleans a brace (5,2,3,2)
56Trainer's extremely grumpy, standing by demolished homes (3,4)
57Rapidly getting prompt wrong (5,3,3,4)

Down
2Naked burglar caught by setter: coming up in Parasite (7)
3Have little following hint of dark secret (7)
4Charles' little girl, millennial, is somewhat looking up (4)
5African plants a ton in outermost of quarters (4)
6Broken 'n' rusting with extreme disuse, like an out-of-use violin (10)
7Make out with agent (3)
8Boost to infinite good (5)
9Heal tip of nose after driving, possibly (6)
10Any random piece of statute gets no votes (4)
11Insult union of Edward and Bitty (10)
12Support father by heading to employment (4)
13Colours top of 'do? Indeed (4)
15Infuriate commission with German becoming king (6)
16Essentially native viewpoint, one like the Dalai Lama (7)
21Kind measure of rolling song in ebony (6)
22Star Wars character prepared to abandon spot (3)
25Herb's improper rebuttal about two students (4,6)
27Content to revile wrong (4)
28Opened up Mars bar about to be rotten (7,3)
29Perceive mean urgences every so often, in retrospect (6)
31Main terminal in Bristol is secure (4)
32See 55a
36Non-profit youth organization starts to arrange invitational events, strongly exhibiting charity (6, init.)
38Intense fear of soup is kept in check by exhausted bum (7)
39, 34a39, 34aThe smell of men'll noisily bring forth children's doctor? (7,6)
41Hack boarded Scotsman turning up in Naples? In Naples (6)
42Don't start to follow cry of fright (3)
45Pharmacist's, until finished, beginning to crack (5)
46Town fare is cocked up (4)
47Retro writing that's Arabic! (4)
48Residents of Eire beginning to ask question of nation (4)
49One under Bond coming up is mostly raw (4)
50Dude starts to become rash, with hesitation (4)
53Endlessly waters tree (3)

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