Cockney aspiration? OPE
Choose paper over plastic? PAYCASH [
Choose made it harder than
Use would have been]
Like any theme ans. in this puzzle ACR [I was thinking
car, etc.]
Survey taker: Abbr. RESP [I was mind stuck on the surveyor, not the surveyed]
Shoots for dinner ASPARAGUS
Ashpalt layer, perhaps ROADBASE [I was thinking the doer, not the done]
The two-car theme was most original, and to get nine of them in the grid must have been a chore. I have no interest in car models today, but advertising certainly works since I had heard of them all.
I particularly liked:
Beethoven's 32... for SONATALEGACY
Feature of the Queen's English for REGALACCENT
Nice plot? for RIVIERAINTRIGUE
I have a particular affinity for 6-Across. Of course, I'm neither a sorcerer nor ancient, though I am fast approaching the latter. Thanks, Don.