Ev 1250

[hankir]

Help please.
Hints on:
36A. Hard nut containing a fine substance (7)

6D. Instruments frequently found in quiet extremely uplifting hospital (8)

14a. Very fine pieces of china are spoilt with marks (8)

Thanks.

[MargoTester]

14 ceramics?

[donny48]

Any letters placed ?

[hankir]

Thanks MargoTester. I can see are and m but how do you get cics?

donny48: A letter at random has to be pulled out from each answer. So hard to say if the cross letters are correct.
But 36 a could have ta and i or g.

[MargoTester]

It was a guess hankir that's why I put the ?
Another guess 6d utensils

[mallyh]

14a charming?

[MargoTester]

Yes that looks more like it Mally x ch ar ming

[DocHH]

Hankir
36a) is a gas!
6d) the instruments are of a Jewish nature and the plural ends in a popular abbreviation of hospital.
14a) the definition is the first two words, and the last 4 letters of the answer are an anagram of are and m(arks).

Donny, this is a "barred crossword", where all the lights are blank. The ends of words are indicated by a thisk black line rather than black square. As hankir has indicated each answer has to be modified before entry, by removing letters to lights outside the main grid. Reading clockwise these letters make a quotation, and the solver needs to highlight in the grid the full name of the originator!

If you have a look at

http://www.fifteensquared.net/category/enigmatic-variations/

you will see examples of barred crosswords and their solutions. They are not for the faint hearted, but rather the experienced Cryptic Solver who has a warped mind!

[DocHH]

thisk should read thick, which just indicates my state of mind!

[hankir]

Thank you all.
DocHH: Thanks for the tip on 14a. I got it right away. I was trying to find an 8 letter word for china. Will work on the other two.