FT Polymath 326

[im stuck]

stuck on last 2.

21a, Catalan composer whose cendrillon was chosen for the opening of the Bolshoi theatre. s--.

22d, Any chemical process in which an electron is added to an atom or an ion. --d-c-i-n.

thanks in advance (presuming my letters are right)

[kosoro]

22d Induction???

[crofter]

21a Sor?

[crofter]

22d is more likely to be "reduction" - but I can't match your definition as given in the clue.

[crofter]

For 2a, please note the following quote: "Considerably more influential was the Cendrillon, with music by Catalan guitarist Fernando Sor"

[crofter]

For 22d I came across the following definition of reduction: chemical processes in which the proportion of more electronegative substituents is decreased, or the charge is made more negative, or the oxidation number is lowered.