Could someone please parse 7d writer's charge to keep heading off graduates (9) i.e. columnist and 20d climber eating yellow pasty (5) looks like ivory. Why please? Is this Ivor Richards, the armchair...
12d The second vowel has become "I" (3) is EGO. Could someone please parse it? Also, 24a Not bad, using bow to wrap imaginary cat? is Fair to middling, Tom being the cat and fiddling being " using...
14d US financial interests briefly spread into personal money supply (4,6) is WALL STREET but why, "briefly spread into personal money supply"? 17a Criminal's lost in holiday home(5) is VILLA but why...
55a Playing with make-up? Time to break certain ingrained habit(6,6) is SECOND NATURE but why? Ingrained habit = definition. T breaking SURE gives some letters but make up? OR Playing with= second?
10a Marine guide turns into wicked old grandee is as already answered Magnifico. But, why? grandee=magnifico. 20a Vintage Times puzzle(4) looks like CLUE but why vintage Times?