Guardian Genius 67

[amtaff]

I have three answers left that fit but I do not fully understand the reasoning. In the clues the letter 'C' is the name of a composer which appears in the answer. 22ac.About time to interrupt C's twin(6) ??S?O? 22d.Informal federation turning into one of its components(6) ????A? 23ac.Not so-so, on reflection, detaining educators after C(10) ?A?L?C?O?? My proposed answers are CASTOR; CASUAL; FALLACIOUS. Any comments or advice gratefully accepted.

[kayakamina]

22d Casual.....USA < in CAL (California)

[Quizmonster]

Casual = USA backwards in CAL for California.
Fallacious = Falla plus OU (Open University) within sic backwards.
I agree with your Castor, but couldn't really see why apart from twin.

[kayakamina]

23a Fallacious....FALLA (composer) SIC < + OU (Oxford University)

FALLA CI OU S

[Quizmonster]

Once again, K, your answer wasn't there when I started to type mine!

[kayakamina]

Likewise QM1 with my second answer.

[kayakamina]

I thought CASTOR may be

CA (about) SOR (composer) T (time) = Twin

[Quizmonster]

Ah! Sor = composer's name plus ca = about and t for time.

[Quizmonster]

Oh, for crying out loud! But isn't it amazing how - when someone else asks about a clue that puzzled one at the time - all becomes miraculously clear?

[kayakamina]

Quite right! I stared at Castor when I first did the Genius crossword but the explanation only came to me now.

Heigh Ho

[Quizmonster]

Oh for crying out loud! But isn't it amazing how - when someone else asks about a clue that puzzled one at the time - it all becomes miraculously clear?

[Quizmonster]

I'll tell you what, K, I'm off to have some breakfast! This is all too much for me.

[Quizmonster]

I'll tell you what, K, I'm off to have some breakfast! This is all too much for me.
(I wonder whether this will appear twice. Not sure what happened above.)