Ev 1492

[hankir]

Help with:
1. Nelson’s hostilities only with this relationship (5)

2. If cycling around kayak can be hard work in Oz (5)

3. Energy invested in using up prevailing spirit (6)

4. Unfortunately, the health standards body cut member of racial minority (6)

Also what is the first letter at 1a?

Thanks.

[ProfessorMaisie]

1a starts S
(ho)RATIO
YAKKA
GENIUS (remove a letter for entry, hankir)
ETHNIC (remove a letter for entry).

[ProfessorMaisie]

... for the last one - N.IC.[E.] is the UK health standards body.

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.
Left side of the grid looks good.
Right side, not so much.
What goes at the second across in Row 1 and the last row?

[roslyn251254]

row 1 rhs... the adjusted answer from journo in emergency call..
bottom row RHS ...halfwits keeping short....

Do you have these answers yet?

[hankir]

I think
Journo in emergency goes in Row 1 and Halfwits keeping.. goes in the last row.

What goes in the bottom of middle row?

[ProfessorMaisie]

For the initial grid-fill the 2nd across on the top row is SHACKS (dropping 'o' from a Set B answer).
Last row answer is ASEPSES.

[roslyn251254]

...What goes in the bottom of middle row?...
do you mean the middle column?....if so ...pondweed small...

[ProfessorMaisie]

... not sure what you mean by 'bottom of middle row'.

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM and Ros.

Sorry, I meant middle column.

Now grid is completed.
The 11 letter word is what the Airlines do routinely.
I have three words B, E and S that are not entered.

Not sure about the last step of 16 cells alteration.
Does PTO stand for Please Turn Over or Paid Time off.

[ProfessorMaisie]

Please turn over (I put something on the crossword forum around lunch time that might help).

[hankir]

I have occasionally wondered if that is you on the forum.
Please give me one abbreviation to start off.

[ProfessorMaisie]

LEV(iticus).

[hankir]

Thanks.

Bible books are not my strong point. But Google will help.

[ProfessorMaisie]

(It was kind of the setter to give us changes in symmetrical entries).