Coincidence by Sabre

Puzzle explanation

The replaced letters spelt out “sixteen-and-four-eleventh minutes past three”; the replacements spelt “twenty-one-and-nine-eleventh minutes to eight”. These are two times of day when the minute and hour hands on a clock face coincide, as they do at NOON. The unclued central column contained MINUTE HAND and HOUR HAND, preferably side by side so that across answers read normally apart from the misprints, though any arrangement of the two letters per cell was accepted, as well as MINUTE HAND only, as if the HOUR HAND were hidden by it.

Clue explanations

Conventions: * = anagram, < = reversal

No Answer Explanation
Across
1 SOUL U in SOL
4 BROMHIDROSIS (M’S + HORRID BO IS) *
11 EXPIRATION R in EXPIATION
12 CONGOU (tro)U(ble) after (CONG + O’)
13 RESEIZE RESIZE around (desirabl)E
15 THESP HE’S in (T(heatre) P(roduction))
16 PENNON PENN + ON
17 TURNS OUT URNS in TOUT
20 ACANTH A + CANT + (spinac)H
21 QUARTER “is” = QUARTER of “louis d’or”
23 FAT CITY FATTY around CI
25 EARBOB DEAR BOB − D; ref. Bob Hope
26 PREACH UP PUP around REACH
28 INWRAP PRAWN * after (f)I(lo)
30 ORGAN ((i)RON AG(e)) *
32 DELENDA (D + LEADEN) *
33 LASHES (wa)L(nut) + ASHES
34 GNOSTICAL NOSTALGIC *
35 SPACE CADETS (ACCEPTED A + S) * + (jean)S
36 VERY 3 meanings; ref. inventor of Very light
Down
1 TERPINEOLS PINE in STEROL *
2 UPSHOT UPS + HOT
3 LIMO LIMBO − B
4 BRIOCHE (g)R(a)I(n) in BOCHE
5 RAZMATAZ R + MAT in (AZ + AZ)
6 UNDA (Hy)UNDA(i)
7 RON “he” with R ON = “her”; ref. Harry Potter characters
8 OTHER THE in O(ffice)R
9 WOTTED WOTTED after (mobster)S = SWOTTED
10 SUPERHEAVY (HAS EVERY) * around UP
14 DAUBIEST (A + U + BEDSIT) *
18 ODDNESS 2 meanings; ref. all prime numbers except 2, and strange person
19 SATRAP SAT + RAP
22 EVINCE VEIN * + C(ause) E(mbolism)
24 CRAIC CR + (S)A(bre) + I’ + C(hirripó)
27 CORA CO(b)RA; ref. Gormenghast characters
29 WHIN W(e) + HIN
31 TEE T(raction) E(ngine) E(liminated)
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