Iq 1704

[hankir]

Northwest corner needs help.
Each clue has an extraneous word.

2d. Local ones set up browser for staff not given due recognition (6)

10d. Spenser’s to stop chapter being tedious (5)

22. Hawaiian annexe wanting local island timber (4)

Thanks.

[ProfessorMaisie]

2d UNSUNG (extra 'staff')
10d CESSE ('tedious')
22 LANA ('local')

'gnu' is the browsing animal raised in 2
'esse' = 'being' in 10
'lanai' is the wing of a Hawaiian house

[hankir]

The grid is complete and I have the message.

Nomic comes to mind but have no idea how to solve the endgame.

It seems the goal post kept on moving.

[hankir]

ThanksProfessorM.
I forgot to click send on my previous post.
But all done except fill in in two blank cells and finding two words.

Postage plots, Hostage plots?

[ProfessorMaisie]

Your last sentence has all of the elements for the 3 word phrase, hankir 4,3,9 (do you know what they look like in the sport of rugby?).
The phrase is an anagram of the diagonal (after completing the empty cells at either end) - 2 words 7,5.

[ProfessorMaisie]

...sorry, hankir - the first part of the phrase is the anagram indicator - the other two words are the anagram.

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.

They should be the shape of H.
The second word must be posts.

[ProfessorMaisie]

...that refers to your initial response, hankir - I can see from your second one that you didn't really need my follow-up (I'm pretty slow on a keyboard).

[ProfessorMaisie]

Yes only the 'H' moves each time - which is quite a clever device, I think (and 'goalposts' is one word)

[hankir]

Aah. Got it.
Thanks.