The Mail On Sunday Sir Lancelot Sunday February 5Th 2017

[NOISETTE]

6 down Current gauge (7) A?M????
21 down Mitigate (7) L?G???N
27 across Food (9) N?T?I????
12 across Lover of Beauty (8) ?E???E?E

[fiction-factory]

ammeter

[Calibax]

27 Nutrition
12 Aesthete

[JJ109]

Ammeter

Nutrition

[fiction-factory]

lighten
nutrition

[Calibax]

21 Lighten

[aelmpvw]

6d ammeter
27a nutrition
12a aesthete

[dannyk13]

Ammeter
Lighten
Nutrition
Aesthete

[NOISETTE]

If lighten and nutrition are right I have No 16 down wrong. I had machinery. The question was mechanical devices collectively (9)

[fiction-factory]

what pattern do you have please for the 'machinery' one

[fiction-factory]

nutrients?

[fiction-factory]

If you put NUTRIENTS instead of nutrition would that allow you to fit in machinery?

[livings29]

I have nutriment which works with machinery and lighten.

[Country boy]

Nutriment

[MargoTester]

Ammeter
Lighten
Nutriment
Aesthete

[MargoTester]

Cryptic clue: enthusiast to merit working with new food:
Anagram nut to merit +n(ew)

[MargoTester]

^ for 27a so nutriment is correct

[dannyk13]

No idea why I put nutrition when I have nutriment in the crossword.

[MargoTester]

The dreaded autocorrect Danny:-))