Iq 1675

[hankir]

My right 4 columns have missing answers.
I have 4 clashes so far. Seems I am missing 1 or 2.
Answer length may be longer.

8a. Guts from a local happened to enthral the writer (4)

21d. Playing chess after elevated discussion in social functions (6)

30d. Some whisky, hot? That’ll make Scots gasp (4)

Thanks.

[Neveracrossword]

30 Pegh, gasp. Peg, some whisky and H, hot.

21 Thematic. Klatsches, social functions, coffee mornings.

[hankir]

Thanks NAC.
Now I have 5 clashes.
Still working on 8a.

[ProfessorMaisie]

WAS [around] ME ('the writer).

[ProfessorMaisie]

... = (dialect + C17th lit.) 'wombs'.

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorMaisie.

Scottish words are tough for me.

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, PM. I had the correct entry - using Me and what was in the grid, but had no idea of the parsing!

[ProfessorMaisie]

And me, hankir (and even for most Scots!).

[ProfessorMaisie]

It's a nice sounding word, neveracrossword - sounds like something Lear or Carroll would like (and not necessarily Scottish, according to Chambers).