Sunday Express Skeleton July 9

[pandabear]

22a Envy all top leaders have - seems to be three letters E?T

16a Tomes in an altered state - seems to be 5 letters
?N?S?

[shammydodger]

Eat i.e the initial letters of "envy all top"

[pandabear]

thank you shammydodger

[pandabear]

whoops - got the number of letters wrong for 16a .... answer is Minnesota

thank you

[shammydodger]

Hmm, a slight error, Panda :)

[pandabear]

yeah ---- :-)