Listen With Others

I’m behind again with my posts! Thanks to Karla for this timely reminder of Gregor Mendel and his work. I hope I got the artwork right – I’ve noted the title and Mendel’s work and ensured each pod contains 2 crossed peas. The expression “as alike as 2 peas in a pod” comes to mind.

Other (unintended I’m sure) traps into which I fell include

1. 1ac SALAAM – to greet or bid giving O from bod
2. 31dn ACES are aircraftmen, thus erks from Eros, also O
3. 33dn POP is a song, giving A from sang

Luckily I realised that “draw pods around poos” wasn’t quite what was needed!

Good spot on GREEN and congratulations to Karla on squeezing a decent amount of thematic material into the grid. PISUM SATIVUM was a nice touch, being the same length as GREGOR MENDEL. Confession: I didn’t spot all those peas until I came to the endgame: 0/10 for  observation! Thanks for a lovely puzzle!.