Message to over 18

[Plugging Awa]

Good for you for your riposte to the wherewasi question.
I always feel it's a bit much for people to seek help with this competition when there are only two questions involved and there is a holiday at stake.
If you've entered yourself, then good luck with it!

[Tallulah!]

Lots of us feel like this. I gave up doing this draw when I saw the questions being asked as early as 7.30am by lazy or stupid people.

[wideboy]

Fair point but .......

Some people do spend quite a bit of time on the puzzle (have you looked at it today) even for just two questions - maybe even more time than on the MOS (83.5 hours is irrelevant, and the mos has longer to go).

Sometimes the clues are a bit vague - this week's geography is a case in point - the setter seems to wander all over the place. The Youth Hostel is fairly easy to find as is the place with the remote pub. But which hamlet is the setter wanting!

[Plugging Awa]

Sorry Wideboy. Can't agree. Asking for the last 2 or 3 solutions to a crossword you've spent an hour or so with is justified but not this. So you invest time and get nowhere. Boo hoo. Go off and try the following week. That's life. I wrestle with this sometimes and have to leave it. I don't trawl for the answers as statistically the people who give them are narrowing the odds of winning themselves.
I still think that's unethical with a HOLIDAY at stake.

[wideboy]

Fair enough....

But how do you compare a HOLIDAY with �1500 for the MOS?

[wideboy]

BTW - I usually don't give answers to this puzzle, I try to give extra clues (this week's might have been a bit obvious though!).

[over18]

If anyone really wants to go on a three day camel trek (golly, those animals stink in the heat!) then, for once, I'll give them the answer(s).

[wideboy]

Over18, I did wionder about that before I entered the competition! Might regret it (have to win first of course). Not sure how the wife would take it.

Oops, Derby have just scored!

[Plugging Awa]

Honestly Wideboy, I am not trying to convince you.
We can agree to differ.
BUT...if it was the MOS then you would need to be supplying fifty percent of the answers to be equal to even one hefty hint on wherewasi.
I agree though, I wouldn't WANT to win a camel trip.
I haven't even looked at this week's. I give it the go by more often than I attempt it.
Hope you are successful wideboy, even if the prize IS a curate's egg. Cheers.

[Tallulah!]

I gave up buying the Times. We mostly finish MOS, S/Express and always YOU from knowledge in our heads. We certainly NEVER crib answers from AB. That's far too easy. We 'plug away'