Bank Transfer by Calmac

Puzzle explanation

The unclued grid entries were PONTE VECCHIO, FIRENZE and H W LONGFELLOW. Corrections to the clue misprints spelt out TADDEO GADDI, a medieval Florentine painter and architect to whom the design of the bridge was atrributed. Longfellow wrote a sonnet about the bridge, crediting Gaddi, both in Italian and in English, beginning:

Il Ponte Vecchio di Firenze
Gaddi mi fece; il Ponte Vecchio sono;
Cinquecent’ anni già sull’ Arno pianto
Il piede, come il suo Michele Santo
Piantò sul draco.

The Old Bridge at Florence
Taddeo Gaddi built me. I am old,
Five centuries old. I plant my foot of stone
Upon the Arno, as St. Michael’s own
Was planted on the dragon.

Clue explanations

Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal

No Misprint Answer Explanation
Across
9   LIEU LIE + U
10 Has(T)y CURSORY SO in CURRY
12   ALARM À LA + RM
13 M(A)tes SPOUSES US in POSES *
14 Threa(D) YARN (N + RAY) <
16   APHORIST AORIST around PH
18   ARNO (popul)AR NO(tion)
21   SEAFARER (FEARS ARE) *
22   CONFETTI (ETC IF NOT) *
25 O(D)ium HATE H + ATE
26   LARGESSE LARGO with ESSE for O
27 p(E)rch BASS 2 meanings
29   ANIONIC AN + IO + N(ote) I(nternal) C(ount)
30   NONET NT around ONE
31   STAGING STAG around GIN
32   WINO (I + NOW) *
Down
1   PLAYAS PLAY + AS
2   NEAR EAR after (lesso)N
3 r(O)ads TURNOFFS TOFF’S around URN
4   EN MASSE SEAMEN * around S
5   EUPHRATES SUPERHEAT *
6 sin(G) CROON C(onfess) R(epenting) O(f) O(ne’s) N(aughty)
7   HOSIERY H + OSIERY
8   OYSTER (YES TOR) *
11   RESPECTS (PRESS ETC) *
15 V(A)in ARROGANT ORGAN * in ART
17 o(D)es POETISING PO + (TIN EG IS) *
19   WASHBOWL W + ASH + B + OWL
20   ON TRIAL (RELATION − E) *
22 hoo(D) CALASH CLASH around A
23 d(I)sh BESTOW SET * in BOW
24   VENIN N in VEIN
28   ANIL AIL around N
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