Azed

[Quizmonster]

Has Mr Azed misread his own handwriting again in today's puzzle? I refer to the common letter for 23A and D. I do not ask for the answers...it's because I'm pretty sure I know the answers that I ask the question...but they do not gel as far as I can see.

[augustusH]

i believe that you are correct
C/G confusion seems to have taken place, though I suppose that we could both be wrong.....

(ps Stuck on 3 down)

[Quizmonster]

'Victorian' is a reference to Australian slang rather than British royalty, giving 'droob'. Seems the 'children' connection would read 'brood' which isn't quite what we get when 'droob' is 'brought up'! Maybe the 'possibly' might suggest we can at least make an anagram of 'brood' from these letters.
23D has the answer in the clue>, so that one's opener must be right but that same opener does not work for 23A, which is equally clearly the other letter you suggest.
Looks like we may have to draw a diagonal line from top left to bottom right of the offending square and put both letters in as appropriate for the 23s!
Unusual to get two such apparent mistakes if 3D is as I suggest.

[Quizmonster]

'Victorian' is a reference to Australian slang rather than British royalty, giving 'droob'. Seems the 'children' connection would read 'brood' which isn't quite what we get when 'droob' is 'brought up'! Maybe the 'possibly' might suggest we can at least make an anagram of 'brood' from these letters.
23D has the answer in the clue>, so that one's opener must be right but that same opener does not work for 23A, which is equally clearly the other letter you suggest.
Looks like we may have to draw a diagonal line from top left to bottom right of the offending square and put both letters in as appropriate for the 23s!
Unusual to get two such apparent mistakes if 3D is as I suggest.

[augustusH]

Thanks for your insight re Victorian
I suppose that the possibly refers to the various other Australian states, one possible one being Victoria
If so, it cant be an anagram and its dyslexia
So we have 2 mistakes in 1 puzzle!