Remembrance by Alchemist

Puzzle explanation

The extra letters in wordplay, in order of grid entries, spelt “TS Eliot; The Waste Land (Part Four), Death by Water; Pound”. This part of the poem begins:

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead Forgot the CRY OF GULLS, and the DEEP SEA SWELL And the PROFIT AND LOSS

Unclued grid entries were the items capitalised above. Unjumbling the name of PHLEBAS in the middle row of the grid formed new words. The puzzle marked the centenary of the poem’s publication, in the first issue of The Criterion magazine, October 1922.

Clue explanations

Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal

Answer Explanation [extra letter]
ABASHMENT A + BASH + ME[A]NT
ALTER [W]ALTER
BAALISM (I LAMBAS[T]) *
BANG B[L]AG around N
BENET BE[T] + NET
BIAS B(ritish) I(ntelligence) [H](ave) A(lready) S(pread)
CAN BAC[O]N * − B
CHAR H[E]AR after C
CHEATING ON (A NICE G[E]NT OH) *
DENIM (woo)DEN [L]IM(bs)
DREW DR + [N]EW
EATEN (gat)EA[U] TEN(ding)
ELICITATIONS S[T]ILE < around CITATION
ELL [B]ELL
FEES FE[T]E + S(teep)
FICHES F + I[T]CHES
GRAPE RAP in GE[E]
LEAPT LE[T] + APT
LESSEN (temp)LES S[P]EN(ding)
LING L[U]NG around I
LUTE LU[S]T + E
MARRER ERR < in MAR[E]
MIASMAS [A]MASS * around AIM <
NATANT ANT after NAT[O]
NATURE-MYTH ([T]RUTH MEANT) * around Y
OLEATE [R]OLE + ATE
OOGENY E[R]GO < in ON + Y(olk)
OTTER TO < + T[I]ER
OUT O(ne-side)[D] + UT
PIP PP around [A]I
PIPE [D]IP in PE
PLAN P[A]L + A + N
REE ([S]EE + R) <
RE-ENTERS RE + ENS around TE[A]R
RETICULE ([W]RITE CLUE) *
SNORE S(y)N(o)[D] (c)O(u)R(s)E
STAGER GARTE[R]S *
STRING TIES STRINGE[N]T − E + IE + S
TEA T(h)E(r)[E](s)A
TEAT [Y]ET < + TA <
TESTILY T[H]EY around STIL(l)
TIERCES [F]IERCE in T(own)S
UNREPRIMANDED (DAMN RUDE NIP[P]ER) *
UNTOLD TO[O]L in (UN + D)
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