Jigsaw by Xanthippe

Puzzle explanation

The letters in circled cells formed F BARNARD. Frederick Barnard was an illustrator who wrote “One picture is worth ten thousand words” in the magazine Printers’ Ink in 1927 (the quotation has been in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations since the fourth edition, in 1992). The letters removed from inside the highlighted area of the grid were those that don’t occur at all in the quotation. The highlighted area with internal gaps produced a crude representation of a face, with the initials FB in the circled “eyes”.

Clue explanations

Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal

No Extra word Answer Explanation
Across
1   COMBAT STRESS (SCOTS MASTER) * around B
6   NINA (hidde)N IN A(rmy)
9   REGO (r)OGER <
10   AIL A + I’ + L
13   REDO OD(d)ER <
14   POST-IT POST IT
15 pointer HOD HOOD − O
16   DEO E in DO
19   EMEU EME + U
20   ARROW ’ARROW
21   B AND B BAND B
22   DISC DC around IS
26   GUY GUYANA − (AN + A)
28   ATE MATE − M
29   RYND RY + ND
30   ARKOSE AROSE around K
31   NERITE (IN TREE) *
Down
2   OAR (b)OAR
3   BEG BEGIN − IN
4   TAPROOT TAP(a) + ROOT
5   SILL SI + LL
7   NADIR DRAIN *
8   DUPE (E + PUD) <
11   SOAK S(mall) + OAK
12   TIE TIE(r)
17 cue SUNS homophone of SONS
18   WADS WAS around (Enfiel)D
23   CUP C + UP
24   IN RE REIN with letters cycled
25   SUD (in)DUS(trial) <
27   ULE (m)ULE
Pieces
    AWKWARDISH A + WK + RAW < + DISH
    BATTENINGS BAGS around (TENT IN) *
    COMPADRES MOC(k) < + PADRES
    ESSENTIAL (NESSIE − I) < + TAIL *
    IDOLATRISE D in SOLITAIRE *
    METHODISM (ETHOS around (D + I)) in (M + M)
    MUDBANKS (BUM around D) < + SANK *
    OBTENTION OB + TENT + I(f) + ON
    OUTSIDE OF OUT + SIDE + OFT − T
    RUGULOSE RUG + OL(d) < in USE
    SKATEPARK (SKATE + K) around PAR
    SOUNDBITE SOUND + BITE
    STRAPPER S + TRAP + PER
    THROWBACK WORTH * + BACK
    UNPOSTED UN + (T in POSED)
    YUL BRYNNER (RUBY NEARLY) * with N for A
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