1A: diatribe; “tie raid” homophone 5A: out of stock?; E+X(T+IN)C+T, i.e. [stor]E + (T (“shirt”) + IN (“available”)) in XC (L + XL in Roman numerals) + [almos]T 6A: grammar; NASTY* + X 1D: Overflow; (E +T[-i]ME)* 2D: Slimy; [-ok]RA + T[hat] + TY 3D: I may be spinning my wheels with this; DON{'->U}T 4D: Hades crossover?; S[tarcraf]T + YX (i.e. y-axis, x-axis = "axes")
Nice, big fan of 4D especially! The Roman numeral stuff in 5A is very clever but I had no hope of working out the parse without your breakdown. Unfortunately had to reveal for 1D and 3D but I think they’re fair—wordplay in 3D was just too hard to spot for me! In what context can “error” be abbreviated to E? Not sure I’ve seen that one before.
Thanks for solving! Yeah, I couldn’t resist once I realized the Roman numeral angle for 5A, but it’s definitely too complex for its own good. I was thinking of E as used for error in baseball box scores.
Echoing @JWords again, but 4D is wonderful. I also really liked the swap in 3D—I've never seen a letter take the place of punctuation, but that's 100% legit by cryptic rules. 6A made me chuckle, 2D as well. 5A was very clever, perhaps too clever: [available in] translating as (IN) is wild, and the L and/+ XL was super slick. The advice I've been given is that if the wordplay is super sneaky, the definition should be clearer, or at the very least, the crossings should be on the easier side so that backsolving is possible.
5A: out of stock?; E+X(T+IN)C+T, i.e. [stor]E + (T (“shirt”) + IN (“available”)) in XC (L + XL in Roman numerals) + [almos]T
6A: grammar; NASTY* + X
1D: Overflow; (E +T[-i]ME)*
2D: Slimy; [-ok]RA + T[hat] + TY
3D: I may be spinning my wheels with this; DON{'->U}T
4D: Hades crossover?; S[tarcraf]T + YX (i.e. y-axis, x-axis = "axes")