Eye 381

[stymied]

24dn Mandelson's chief destiny crushed by plonker (3,4)

T?M ?O??

I think this is one of 12 clues lacking a definition, and the answer is the name of someone quoted in Pseuds Corner (in 2008). My P.E. collection is incomplete (they tend to get lost or tossed), so I can't check back. Tom Foot is the only name I've turned up but cannot justify or check.

42ac. Pressure gets former Fayed intimate out of trouble (6)

???E?S

STRESS perhaps, but can't justify. Any help woud be much appreciated

[aeronut]

Tom Fool?
A plonker is a fool.

[baitress]

42a - stress. di stress. di being princess Diana who was a former fayed intimate i.e. Dodi

[stymied]

Many thanks to you both. I like justification for STRESS, which rules out TOM FOOL, which I couldn't justify anyway.

[Squitty]

Tom Boys

[johnalex]

Tim Lott

. . . M = Mandelson's chief
. . . LOT = destiny
. . . T!T = fool

[stymied]

Many thanks johnalex, can move on to the Inquisitor now --
after I've watched the football on Ch5.

[rabidbudgie]

Like it..

Except that now I'm stuck on the 36/77 -- "those entering this niche in property market soon down to their last stitch" -- previously I had Pseud's 2008 debutante Kate Nash in there, which now doesn't fit!

[Gwen-L]

24 down is Tim Lott - lot being destiny, tit being plonker and the m for Mandelson's chief.

42 across - I think it's stress because I can't see what else it could be but, like you, I can't justify it.

[Gwen-L]

36/77 is love nest.