For Me and You by Pandiculator

Puzzle explanation

The corrections to clue misprints spelt “A Trevelyan, J Bond”, the combatants in a climactic fight scene in the 1995 film Goldeneye. The film was set in Cuba but the scene was filmed at the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico. This was the location from which the Arecibo message was beamed into space on 16 November 1974 — the puzzle was published on its 50th anniversary. The message consisted of a 23×73 binary image containing basic information about humanity, DNA, planet Earth and the telescope itself. The first letters of the extra words in clues spelt out “fifty light years away; stickman, DNA”. Highlighting every occurrence of the letters STICKMAND in the grid produced an exact replica of a 13×13 portion of the message, revealing its depiction of a stickman and the lower part of its representation of DNA, plus three pixels forming part of the adjacent information. The puzzle’s title alluded to the final dialogue between Trevelyan and Bond — “For England, James?”, “No. For me.” — and the wider nature of humanity’s message to the stars.

Clue explanations

Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal

No Extra word/(misprint) Answer Explanation
Across
1 forgives EPHEBE (Pers)EP(hone) + HEBE
5 intermezzo SUB JOVE BUS < + JOVE
10 Flanders PLOVER PL OVER (ie PL <) = LP
11 truth POLLEN (O’ + LL) in PEN
13 Ste(A)l PURLOIN PURL + (j)OIN(t)
14 You GRATTOIR GIR(l) around OTTAR <
15 Gra(T)ing SIVER (exclu)SIVE R(esort)
16 legion REHUNG ROUGHENING * − (g)OING *
18 (R)ope’s GUYED GUY + WED − W
20 isn’t SIRREE RE in SIRE
21 growth EBBS E(arly) B(ut) + SB <
22 heat RIMAE A(ppears) in RIME
23 troublemaker DZOS (roa)D + SOZ <
25 yearbook ELSPET (E + SPELT) *
27 (E)d’s VEALE V(intag)E + ALE
30 (V)igorous MANFUL CANFUL with M (1000) for C (100)
32 election OFFER 2 meanings
33 admission ALTER EGO ALT + ERE + GO
35 reported REREDOS REDO in RES
36 skin GERBES GREBES with R moved later
37 Cit(E) ALLEGE (EG + (umbr)ELLA) <
38 admirer HEELTAP HEEL + TA + P
39 coo(L) CALLER ALL in REC <
Down
1 weight EPAGOGE (EGO + APE) < around G(ym)
2 absent HORARY (O + HARRY) *
3 Young EVET E(cologist) + VET
4 qua(Y) BERTH (Al)BERT H(all)
5 support SQUINT QUIN in ST
6 train BOLSHIE SHI(rts) in BOLE
7 pe(A)ce OLIVE OL(d) + I’VE
8 invalid VENEREOLOGY (ONE EVER) * + LOGY
9 cases ENERVE VENERE(ology) *
12 (N)ot TROUBLEFREE (ROUBLE + FREE) after T
13 (J)ock’s POUKIT POU(t) + KIT
17 Karen URDÉ (m)URDE(r)
19 man ESPY SPY after (Countryfil)E
20 actually SAINTS AIN’T in SS
22 (B)ack REGREET REGRET around (r)E(dundancies)
24 newspapers SEE OVER SEVER around E O
25 Dog ENOUGH NOUGH(t) after (bon)E
26 t(O)nic SALOOP SAP around LOO
28 nuclear A LEVEL LEV in LEA <
29 arks YFERE Y + REEF *
31 Ma(N) FELLA FELL + A
34 Win(D) ROLL homophone of ROLE
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