Ev 1218

[devadolly]

Definitely Ginger Mog's EV. He has been practising all week - tends to specialise, 2 live (one now dead in inaccessible place and letting us know) and 4 oven ready, 2 whole and 2 tested for taste. Not finished, but enjoying enormously.

[DocHH]

Hello devadolly, yes it was good fun. I am sure that given your environs GM has presented you with a far wider variety of trophies than Stick Insect's CAT!! But surely he is now just training his successor. I thought it was quite elegant that after removing the mangled forms the grid entry was still a word!

Just relaxing with a glass of South African red, after taking distant relatives (second cousin of a second cousin) around the County to help them with tracing their family tree. Very interesting, gravestones and tombs dating back to the 1600s. Even a plaque in a cottage detaiing who owned it in 1634!

We are recommencing the search on Saturday, but a lot closer to my home! Again it will be interesting.

[devadolly]

Hello Doc. Seem to have ground to a halt but will persevere, have only 3 types of prey.
1634......dear, dear a modern property then? This hovel built in 1400 & something, you can tell by the damp! GM not fond of Felix-Oliver, he's not reliable and disappears for days at a time, an out-door semi-wild mog.

[devadolly]

Anyone still here? Am having trouble with 1a, sure it is thematic and have filled grid but can't make out the final 'prey, GM useless!

[roslyn251254]

hello devadolly... anagram of Gus with salve will give you a SLUG in there.
There are 6 different "animals" (2 are repeated)
They are in 1a,12a,13a,28a,42a,43a,8d,33d

[devadolly]

Oh thank you Roslyn! Of course.....GUs, have all the others just couldn't think of Gus for Agustus....brain has failed!