Azed 2385

[hankir]

Help with parsing of these two.

31a.T junction of routes with lane is spanned by it (5)
The answer I have is Inventor Nikola's name.
17d. Playing team games, requiring guts (7)
I have On + a word for teams

Thanks.

[dannyk13]

31a.Tesla?

[hankir]

But what is the parsing?

[dannyk13]

Can't parse it but Tesla's name is Nikola and he is an inventor,

[cashier]

17 insides in sides team games and also guts

[hankir]

It could be:

T for Tesla.

Routes gives TES. L in SA (it)
TES+SLA. Junction meaning merge the two to make Tesla?

[hankir]

Thanks cashier and dannyk.

[cashier]

La is the abbreviation for lane so it could be tes as in more than 1 t junction and la

[stymied]

My print version of this crossword seems to have two columns missing. My grid is 11x11 but should be 11x13 -or am I missing something; other than the two columns of course?

[roslyn251254]

rouTES with LAne

[vetuste_ennemi]

[rou]Tes [joined with] la[nes] is my reading of the clue.

[hankir]

Thank you all.
Was too busy solving Listener.

Stymied: It should be 11x13. I went to Guardian website to print it.
Try this:
https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2018/02/16/2,385_Feb25.pdf