Genius 201

[saladdodger]

In Victor Borge’s Inflationary Language ‘four’ and ‘for’, for example, became ‘five’. Eight solutions here contain numbers (or homophones of numbers), which need to be
treated in the same way before entry in the grid; the wordplay in their clues is also ‘post-inflationary’.

2 clues as above......

2d Have relations assuming upset and close to desperation at home in Italian city (11)
for the grid entry i have ?I?E???N?N?

4d That study supports paper about gold fibre (12) ?O?T???E?U?E possibly etude at the end for the study ? Ft for the paper? or for the gold?

[JJ109]

Fivenicnine
fortyonetude

[JJ109]

^^ Definitions are
Fornicate
Fortitude

[saladdodger]

Thanks ... i was almost there with fortitude!

[JJ109]

Fivenicnine = Fi = if/assuming reversed + (close to desperatio)N +in (inside) Venice
Or(gold) in FT (paper) + yon (that) + etude (study) = fortyonetude