Across

  1, 22, 1 dn. It is a century ere Oddfellow impishly lied to us to get work from 6 ac. (3,7,5,2,8)
  6. Idle talk concludes with nothing for a Nobelist, familiarly. (4)

10. Spread open in the Gospel, divinely. (5)

11. Odd tales from 6 ac.’s output. 4,5)
12. See 19 ac.
15. See 19 ac.
17. Project with rowdy content. (5)

19, 15 ac., 27 dn., 12ac. Article: Groups of lower rank than family give over maze (with his intervention), from 6 ac. (3,7,2,3,9)
21. Organ stops land us (agitato) around Langley’s organization. (9)
22. See 1 ac.
23. “No,” says the Scot, who’s a bit of a banana eater, (3)
24. Statute based on custom shows ordinary Scottish hill. (6,3)

27. Turning icy hot and sly, like most fish jaws. (9)

29. Forms of both amnesia and composition. (5)

31. Strontium unit and French fatty tissue. (4)

32. See 23 dn.   

Down

  1. See 1 ac.
  2. Supplement a bit of the weekend. (3)
  3. Falling short, yet coming up with colorful Greek letter. (5)
  4. Name associated with both Thomas and Bob. (5)
  5. Smallish person  associated with Narcissus Boyd. (3)
  7. A small hard growth has a mighty future. (5)
  8. There’s no place like it, one hears, for a measure of resistance. (3)
  9. This old instrument can make rats yelp! (8)

13. Peril of comics is a gem elsewhere. (5)
14. One may dig them in or kick them up. (5)
16. Plant with spur found in some typewriters. (5,5)
18. See 23 dn.
19. Nicaragua, under you French, displays a military jacket. (5)
20. It is sent with a drug to a man, so it’s said. (5)

23, 15 dn., 32 ac. Not a soul to sort it! We get confused with the officer from 6 ac. (2,3,6,2,3,8)
25. Acid type, from the start, makes us careful in chemistry. (5)
26. Rejected parts sound terrible. (5)
27. See 19 ac.
28. Fictional AI menace arises for sixth note. (3)
30. Contrivance made from juniper berries? (3)

Notes

   E-mail your solutions of The Very Logical Prize Puzzle No. 395 by the closing date of 4 p.m. (EST) on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, to mailto:johnnolan755@gmail.com and include your name, postal address and your choice of a Strip T’s shirt***, should you be the drawn winner. Please include a second choice (design number and size) just in case we are out of stock of your favorite T-shirt. The items on Café Press are not in our stock and thus are not available as prizes.   

   Solutions can also be mailed to John Nolan, 27 River Road, Farmington, NH, 03835.

  Most answers, except proper names, appear in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary tenth edition and/or The Chamber’s Dictionary. In this "British-style" crossword, punctuation marks in clues are best ignored, as a rule. The answers to 21 ac. and 27 ac. do not appear in Chambers, but can be found elsewhere, including online. The 19 ac. clue is unavoidably clunky.

The solution to The Very Logical Prize Puzzle No. 395, along with the name of the winner, and everyone else submitting correct solutions, will be published on this site towards the end of December.

***P.S. The cost of mailing one T-shirt overseas has quadrupled in recent years and is now over $24 a pop, effectively killing the trade of small businesses like Strip T’s. Thus, the prize now offered to winning puzzlers from outside the U.S. (and within if preferred) will be a signed Stephanie cartoon rather than a T-shirt.