Struggling with last two entries. Second entry in Row E, which I think is clued from: 'in short etc.' Second entry in Row I, which I think is clued from:' filling up to etc.' Nudges gratefully...
What a delight, on another theme about which I was previously ignorant. Would have been much tougher without the generosity of the setter. Particularly liked 33 down. Thanks Wan....
A fairly easy solve in contrast to the rather complicated preamble. I haven't tried to work out the title yet!
Farewell Ruslan - you will be missed....
1 & 12 a. unfeasibly short odds - also compared ..... I havde: - l - l - m - - - d - - -e - t - o - 12.a. I have: c - i - a - r - - - e 5.d.Heroine of Lady Scott's air... I have: - - - - e - a - r - e...
I think I would have found this impossible without managing to have a lucky guess about who players 1 and 2 are, followed by another lucky guess about where the various empty squares should be. Both...
1a 'Contract's over in lost card game'. There's a spare letter in the wordplay. I have GRA?. I won't spoil it for others and give away the theme and the modified quotation...but I'm finding hard to...
Have just taken up my £1 special offer for first month of my Times subscription, and do hope I shall get better value for money in the coming weeks. I regret to say that this is just not up to...
One of those frustrating ones where the last four clues took as long to sort out as the rest of the clues and the theme altogether. Apart from those four, it was all pretty clear, so thanks Ifor. I...
I can only guess at THE TOWER OF LONDON for where the murder took place but this requires one of the O's to be an N in the letters highlighted. Can anyone help?
Definitely a tough one to get into. I was going along nicely, solved a few clues and got what I thought was the correct code only to find I've made a slip somewhere. I think the logic is pretty much...