Genius 235

[professorplum13]

How do you read the ignored letters in the grid...?
I have a full grid with the ignored letters highlighted (apart from 7d) but the letters don't make any sense...
If i read them like a book i have GARLAND... ADUTO?ERT ..etc

If i read down the columns i have PIVOT, GALUi

Must have letters wrong..??

[ProfessorMaisie]

You read them in the grid, across and down.

[ProfessorMaisie]

...the first one you've shown is LAND, the next PIVOT

[ProfessorMaisie]

another is TO?ER (and your 'i' is incorrect).

[professorplum13]

Thanks profM ...the i comes from trial ...where i thought only the t featured in the wordplay?

[ProfessorMaisie]

You're right about T(rial), professorplum - that gives you all but two letters of another crosswise thematic.