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This is another one of Ximenes' special puzzles. A real challenge; even though the clues are normal, ten of the answers have to be changed to forms not found in a dictionary. If I am breaking copyright I am ready to remove this puzzle promptly. It is published not for financial reward, but as a tribute to a real genius.
Ximenes (in Lent) invites solvers to join him in substituting soft drinks for hard in the answers to the ten italicised clues: thus ransacked might appear as RANCOCOAED, lauwine as LAUWATER, Martinique as VICHYQUE. The definition parts of these clues, and the bracketed numbers at the end of them, refer to the original words; but subsidiary portions, such as anagrams, reference to parts of words, etc., refer to their 'softened' forms which are to be entered in the diagram.
Across
2. Buttercup: see same among a tangle of vegetation, pale, about
beginnings of Oct. and May (7,5)
9. Badly off, without a start - that's dreary in Glasgow (5)
10. Total battle produces a call to surrender (7)
13. Products of the soil, mixed, are stored here (4)
15. Sweat goes through it, to make a careful study (4)
16. Very good reversed Indian pillar, all of a piece - a memorial
(10)
17. That hurts ! Stop ! That hurts just the same (That's like what may come
out at the dentist's) (8)
18. Ill-founded pleas will do (5)
19. It's a marauder: fight back in the confusion (8)
20. Ingenuous and a novice ? Quite the reverse: I wake people up (5)
24. Small vehicle, in a restrictive space, may sting you (5)
28. Revolutionary gripped by Irishman or marauder (8)
29. Ten injured - keeping cool - makes car move on (6)
31. Tear open one bank of the Tiber of old (4)
32. The old port must be made to go round (4)
33. Opposing Territorials between Genoa and Milan (7)
34. A few drams, helpful for forgetting fevah when full of the warm south
? (5)
35. M.D. wanted: you'll find M.D. alone here, harrassed (6)
Down
1. Rolly couple here, rocking wildly - I'll sell tracts(10)
2. 'U' old ruffian, ancient bird, with grasp of the turf(6)
3. Stuffs the last of the infantrymen in trenches (6)
4. Take a quick look up and down in Princes St (4)
5. Having a bend - there's a thing to drink out of (6)
6. In Latin you and I have grasped the reverse of badly Cicero &
Co. (6)
7. Leaves that could well be moist (5)
8. A mere number, a corporal: his name's not given (6)
11. Secretary's job - the pay-rate's absolutely rotten (11)
12. To make a searching enquiry about a fuddled toper is an employer's right
14. Let's have an aid to calculating - I almost get bogged in sexagesimal
arithmetic (8)
21. She's one to relax - she often spoils children (6)
22. A 'U' Frenchman is seen in skill over love (6)
23. Matthew Arnold's watery husband of a human bride has to flirt with one
(6)
25. Deserved attention and study - get it up (6)
26. To choose, in brief, glorification of principle (6)
27. Unjustifiable delays keep one in longer (5)
30. Label bag, inside, last stop before Waterloo (4)
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