Two’s Company by Augeas

Puzzle explanation

The initials of extra words in clues spelt “Beatrice Stella Tanner”, the maiden name of the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell, who was born 150 years ago on 9 February 1865. Soon after getting married, she wrote of “the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue” (seen in the grid’s perimeter).

Clue explanations

Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal

No Extra word Answer Explanation
Across
6   TRAMPLER (LE + R) after TRAMP
9   EMPURPLE (AS + EMPURPLE) * = (PURE SAMPLE) *
10 band TEIN TE + IN
12   AUTOGAMOUS GOUT * in AA + M(etastasise) O(ld) U(lcer) S(oon)
14 emerald SHON S + HON
15   FASTER EASTER with F for E
16 anaesthetic BUFOTENINE (TUBE OF) * + NINE
18   TELEGU (TEUTONIC − TONIC) around LEG
19 terrified MASH (SEAL(y)HAMS − SEAL) *
20   TICHES SIT < around CHE
22 Rhodes DORP PROD <
23   BEIN (Anglopho)BE IN(cident)
25 impregnates STEM 2 meanings
26   RECIPE R(emove) + PIECE *
28 comprising EGER (EDBERG − D(rop-shots) − B(ackspin)) *
29   WARS 2 meanings
30 Erie BLADER BADER around L
31   TAUTOPHONY T + AUTO + PHONY
33 shoreline’s TIETAC IT < + ET + (or)AC(he)
34   CORNSTARCH CORNS + TAR + CH
36 tasty DEER-HORN (RHÔNE RED) *
37   INSCRIBE CRIB in (IN + SE)
Down
1 every HUMANISTIC (IS + TIC) after HUMAN
2   BYRE ((cook)ERY B(ook)) <
3 lubrication LYCHGATE (OIL CHANGE TRY) * − IRON *
4   THEM THE M(ountains)
5 liquidating HARP-SHELLS HARPS + HELL + (numerou)S
7   PHOTOFIT FIT after P(olice) H(ave) O(utlined) T(he) O(ptions)
8 accommodate SIMONIES S + I + MONIES
11   OVERMASTERED (VAST REME HORDE − H) *
13 touring INTERPRETIVE I(magine) + (TREE IN REP TV) *
16   BUSHMEAT BUS + HM + EA + T
17 anciently ENDOGENY (DENY + NEGO) *
21   CHIC C(opy) + HIC
24 night’s IN DANGER OF (FINE AND/OR + G(aol)) *
26   RETURNED TURN in REED
27 nagging EPHORATE RATE after HOPE *
29   WATER BIRTH (BARTER WITH) *
32 eventually POST-FREE (P(in)E + FOREST) *
34   CORNEA CORN + E(ach) A(rtery)
35 ricked CHINEE CHINE + (exercis)E
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