Inquisitor 1645

[pomona]

12a Master command running others primarily (5)
27d Did she once lead good man astray? (8)
28 Precious material's elevating spirit over waterway (8)
Crossers won't help as answers are modified before entry....

[Neveracrossword]

28 Murrhine. Rum spirit, reversed(elevating) and Rhine, waterway.
I forget the definition of Murrhine, but it worked!

[pomona]

Thanks for murrhine ...one of the hard clues ...some are very easy... some are very hard

[pomona]

and 27d is one of the easy ones ...should have seen that anagram!!!

[ProfessorMaisie]

12a is &lit (I think) MACRO - main computer.

[Neveracrossword]

24 D is troubling me greatly!
They shorten bed over rack in El Salvador (8) EP?????S

[Ornis]

Has anyone else found an error with the dropped letter from 8 down? It needs to be e for the quotation but the e is needed for checking with 19 across.

[Ornis]

24D is 3-letter slang for bed followed by o for over followed by an obscure meaning of rack, all inside the usual abbreviation for El Salvador.

[pomona]

i have e pit o mist s for 24d with the i left out in the grid

[Neveracrossword]

Ornis and Pomona, thanks.

Ornis, my E in 19 A is at the end.

[pomona]

ornis ...think 19a is pr(u)ne

[Neveracrossword]

Pomona, yes, that's what I have.

[saladdodger]

all done except what to delete and highlight .....translation yields nothin...??

[roslyn251254]

possibly delete 5 letter word in row 5 ...highlight further down...??

[Ornis]

Thanks Pomona. I had puree by taking the definition as 'remove form of', ure as exercise and pe as gym. All explained now.