Azed 2695 Any Help Most Welcome

[quinol]

I'm tempted to give up on this as I can see some answers but have no idea how to enter them - perhaps 1 or 2 suggestions to start me off?

[bookbinder]

Any help from you would also be most welcome, quinol. How about giving us a clue?

[elliemay1]

quinol has some answers but doesn't know how to enter them

[bookbinder]

elliemay1, thank you for that. We seem to be at a dead end, then?

[elliemay1]

It might be easier to access the print version

[scorpiojo]

From the answer to each across clue one letter must be omitted

wherever it occurs (often more than once) before entry in the diagram.

To the answer to each down clue one letter must be added, at any point

but not unchecked, before entry in the diagram. Definitions in both

across and down clues refer to untreated answers; cryptic indications

in both refer to the answers as they appear in the diagram. Numbers in

brackets show the length of untreated answers, both across and down.

The letters omitted from the acrosses followed by the letters added to

the downs, read in clue order, form a quotation in the Oxford Dictionary

of Quotations, followed by the surname of the author. The line after

the quotation indicates its vague relevance to the puzzle’s theme.

[Captain2]

LiKposted a link, if anyone's interested

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1862696.html

[quinol]

thank you for your answers - my plea was really addressed to solvers who had already made some headway in this particular puzzle, I should have made myself clearer