1 down: Family collected one semi-tropic herb for Americans (8)
Herb for Americans = cilantro, but exactly how everything else fits together is beyond me.
2 down: Feature a themed salute, doubled? (4)
I’m guessing feature = chin, but the rest I’m completely at a loss to explain.
21 down: Putting off shaking bub’s toy? (8)
I’m supposing shaking bub’s toy = rattling, but I can’t explain the other half of the clue.
24 across: Outright authority (4)
The answer, Bass, is a beer, but how outright authority = bass remains a mystery.
1 down – how about family=clan, collected one=cilan and semi-tropic=tro
OK, here are some thoughts from my partner and me on this week’s challenge.
2dn Feature doubled = “chin-chin” seems to be a reference to what our Chambers dictionary refers to as a “toast”, although not used much now we think, and especially not in beer-drinking circles!
21dn Putting off can mean “confusing” which is also a possible meaning of “rattling”.
24ac. “Authority”, as in “authority figure” = “brass”; “outright” means take out the letter “r”. Hence, “bass”.
Well that’s all sorted then!
2 down is quite a goody now that I understand it.
Thanks.