Warning: puzzle geek ahead!

I just got my brand-spankin' new 11C. For the non-NPLers out there, that's shorthand for Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. This brings my total number of dictionaries owned to... um... seven? Depending on exactly what counts as a dictionary. (That's only English dictionaries, mind you.) Hi, my name is Kath, and I'm a word geek.

I also have an incomplete cryptic crossword. I'm not sure if it's really good enough to bother finishing in time for Con, but I feel like I have to try...