Spectator 2454

[Matakari]

Answers to the following will be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
ACROSS:
23 Mathematician from Italy is easing off (6) ??N???
25 British engineer smuggles cases for weapons (8, two words)
B???GOS?
37 Unfortunate area, place besieged by Nazi (7) H??????
DOWN:
26 People who discuss hip-hop artists (8, two words) ?A???O??
33 Parts of foot setter twice dipped in ocean (6) ????I?
35 German soldier in row retreating with hesitation (6) ???T??

Confirmation, please:
10(D) begins with A and ends with S?
20(D) begins with T and ends with E?

[fiction-factory]

23 Bren something?

[fiction-factory]

Bren Guns doesn't fit and can't parse it anyway

[Neveracrossword]

23. A simple anagram, leading to an Italian mathematician.

25 Bren Guns, weapons. Br En Guns.


You've forgotten to give the clues for 10 D and 20 D.

[fiction-factory]

26 may be RAP....

[Neveracrossword]

FF, Bren Guns did work, Matakari's got some wrong letters.

[Neveracrossword]

26 Rap Group

[Neveracrossword]

37 Hapless, unfortunate. Pl, place, A, area and Hess, Nazi. H a pl ess.

[fiction-factory]

23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi

[fiction-factory]

33 Arctic (ocean) fits the pattern but I suspect the definition is parts of foot not ocean

[fiction-factory]

parts of foot could be inches as well as being heel, sole etc

[Neveracrossword]

33 Semeia - Sea, ocean + Me +I, setter.

[fiction-factory]

Good one. Plural of semion.

[fiction-factory]

^ semeion

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, FF, I hadn't checked the dictionary for the exact definition, just knew it was about prosody, verse stuff!

[aelmpvw]

35 reiter

[Matakari]

Sorry about that! Here are the clues to 10 (d ) and 20(d)

10(d) Atmospheric area, say, particle keeps touching (7, two words) A ….. S
20(d) 20 Journalist, I generalise, pens part of column (4) T..E

Many thanks!

[Neveracrossword]

10 D Both your letters are wrong.
20 Hidden in the clue.

[Matakari]

Thanks to all, I'm now enjoying discovering the unclueds. The rest should soon fall into place!

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Matakari - I'm sure we gave you a good start on what is an excellent puzzle!

[Matakari]

Got all the unclueds except 19(A)( ?TOT???), 11(D) (D?????) and 12(D)(?OB?RG)
Some hints for the following will be appreciated:
14(A) Maybe king rejected skill in hymn (6)
MA????
16(A) Returned reward for judge (4) R???
43(A) Frenchman drinking soft drinks (6)
?U?E?S
9(D) Mug’s lost one arm (4) S??N
10(D) Atmospheric area, say, particle keeps touching (7, two words) E?????N
38(D) Escape from resort, touring around (5)
?CA?A