Seeing a pattern? (solution no. 1,066)

The solution to The Nation puzzle no. 1,066 (from 50 years ago last week) is below the fold.

Boy that was tough.  I had to resort to the answer key six times there, but when a puzzle combines very obscure words with non-Ximenean cluing, it’s gonna be murder.  Much of the rest needed intersecting letters, and in a few cases I still don’t have a clue about what Frank Lewis was intending.  Can any of you figure them out?

On the other hand, I’ve found a Shakespeare reference in each of the Lewis puzzles we’ve tackled so far.  Was this a signature?

Solution to The Nation puzzle no. 1,066

Legend: “*” anagram; “~” sounds like; “<“ letters reversed; “( )” letters inserted; “_” or lower case: letters deleted; “†” explicit in the clue, “^” first or last letter or letters, “{“ relocated letter or letters; “§” heteronym, “¶” letter bank

Across

1a	TICKER TAPE	Double definition
6a	OFFA	OFF (opposite [indicated by “quite the opposite”] + A (†) Not sure where “king” fit in here.
10a	ROTIFIER	Two parts of a single definition
11a	OPULENT	Single definition  Why the exclamation point?
12a	TRAINING GROUND	Single definition
14a	BES(<OT<)TED	<TO< (reversal indicated by “bring it back”) contained in (“in”) BEATEN (“defeated circumstances”)
15a	*CINEMA	*ICEMAN (anagram is implied, not indicated)
16a	EMPIRE	Single definition
18a	_KEDGEREE_	bac_K EDGE REE_xamined (hidden word indicated by “you might have”) Not a plate or bowl, but a menu item.  Kedgeree (which I’d never heard of) is a biryani-like rice dish including smoked fish and eggs served for breakfast in England.
22a	DOG IN THE MANGER	Phrase association is the only way I can describe this.
24a	COUP LET	COUP (“an unexpected stroke”) + LET (“allowed”)
25a	ECHELON	Single definition
26a	TIER	Double definition
27a	PESTICIDES	Another phrase association. I got “Silent Spring” right away but couldn’t figure out how to fit it.  I think what Lewis was intending was that PESTICIDES would cause a SILENT SPRING

Down

1d	TURNTABLES	Double definition. “Quite the opposite” relates to records sitting on the turntable, not vice versa.
2d	CUT LASS	CUT (“spurn”) + LASS (“maiden”)
3d	ENFANT TERRIBLE	?? I got this from intersecting letters, but I’m baffled by the wordplay.
4d	TERENCE	?? Another utterly baffling clue.  Does this relate to some film actor of the 1960s?
5d	PRONGS	Single definition
7d	FLEANCE	Single (Shakespearean) definition Fleance was Banquo’s son.
8d	*ACTS	*SCAT (cross-reference to 23d, anagram indicator implied)
9d	AUTOBIOGRAPHIC	Pun
13d	NAME BRANDS	Double definition
17d	PROCURE	PRO (opposite (“other than”) of “lay”) + CURE (“healing”)
19d	EVE REST	EVE (“afterdinner”) + REST (“nap”)
20d	RE(GALE)D	GALE (“storm”) contained in (“in”) RED (“full color”) I don’t like the disagreement between subject and object in the definition part of this clue.
21d	STATUE	Single (literary) definition
23d	*SCAT	*ACTS (cross-reference to 8d, anagram indicator implied)