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@Anonymous they're referring to 29D clued as "Jalopy". I also had never heard this but Merriam Webster's third definition of crate, informal + somewhat old-fashioned: "a dilapidated old car or airplane". Their example dates to 1983.

@AGW also was next to obscure trivia (TESH), both of which forms a key part of one of the theme spoonerism. Somehow had to guess the boutique items = cotillion? If only there was any other way to indicate cotillion would be spoonerized in the clue itself instead of making me guess large numbers and eventually get the correct answer while feeling no satisfaction. Hardly a clever puzzle when the wordplay is extraneous to the clue altogether. Most of the rest was ponderous but this section was egregious, and easily fixable with better clueing. I'm ok not loving every puzzle but please editors clean these up

@Barry Ancona I know you make a habit of this kind of comment but it's hard to take you seriously sometimes, and I do want to keep giving you the benefit of the doubt. AD-IN crossed with ADUE and GUNLAP is not Tuesday fill by any means. Plus fill like PATE, SEXER, and SALTTAX meant this puzzle had very technical and arcane terms, as well as a fairly clever theme that should require some crossing answers to complete.