The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26961.
I blogged the last (weekday) Guardian by Enigmatist, and note that the appearance time had reverted to midnight from 1am. Shortly afterwards, it was back at 1am, and has only just returned to midnight for a week or so. Again I was happy to have the extra hour, although it was taken up (and then some) with the last few clues. The puzzle started off well enough, but slowed to a crawl at the end, finally hitting a blank wall with 23D. There are a couple of places where HTML constructions have leaked into the clue texts, at least in the platforms I use. I have corrected them here.
| Across | ||
| 1, 1 down | CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS | So this occasional error in fact indicts hacks? (11,3,14) |
| An anagram (‘hacks’) of ‘occasional error in fact indicts’, with an extended definition. | ||
| 9 | ALL CHANGE | One’s ready, but not with paper alight, please (3,6) |
| This looks like [sm]ALL CHANGE (‘one’s ready’), minus SM (Sunday Mirror?, ‘paper’). | ||
| 10 | NOTCH | The laymen are Nick and Mark (5) |
| A charade of NOT CH (CH for church; ‘the laymen’). Two definitions, or one combined. | ||
| 11 | ICTUS | I’ll get cut treated, the source of some stress (5) |
| A charadde of ‘I’ plus CTU, an anagram (‘treated’) of ‘cut’ plus S (‘the source of Some’). | ||
| 12 | E-COMMERCE | Des leaves car parked behind Green Mile traffic — on line! (1-8) |
| A charade of ECO (‘Green’) plus M (‘mile’) plus MERCE[des] (‘car’) minus ‘Des’. | ||
| 13 | IN PLACES | Pelicans distributed irregularly? (2,6) |
| An anagram (‘distributed’) of ‘pelicans’. | ||
| 14 | ECCLES | Milligan read him the first half of a good book somewhere in Lancashire (6) |
| Two definitions sandwiching the wordplay the ‘first half’ of ECCLES[iastes] (‘good book’ of the Bible). Spike Milligan created the character in The Goon Show. | ||
| 17 | AUBADE | A poor end to performance after classy Here Comes the Sun? (6) |
| A charade of ‘a’ plus U (‘classy’) plus BAD (‘poor’) plus E (‘end to performancE‘). A serenade is an evening song, and an AUBADE, one for the dawn, such as George Harrison’s example (‘?’). | ||
| 19 | COXSWAIN | With craft I can steer 225º through opening (8) |
| Ouch. An envelope (‘through opening’) of OX (‘steer’) SW (southwest, ‘225º’) in CAIN, an anagram (‘with craft’) of ‘I can’, with an extended definition. | ||
| 22 | IMRAN KHAN | Great Asian captain‘s claim to being eighth in line and not third (5,4) |
| A charade of I’M RANK H (‘claim to be eighth in line’ with the preceding words doubling as definition and justification for the grammatical form) plus ‘an[d]’ minus its third letter (‘and not third’). Among Imran Khan‘s many achievements, Enigmatist cites his captaincy of the Pakistan cricket team. | ||
| 24 | AGGRO | King George admitted to past problems (5) |
| An envelope (‘admitted’) of GR (‘King George’) in AGO (‘past’). | ||
| 25 | NINON | Aware of new leading dress material (5) |
| A charade of N (‘new’) plus IN ON (‘aware of’), with ‘leading indicating the order of the particles. | ||
| 26 | CHARIVARI | Eccentric vicar receiving hair transplant makes a hell of a noise (9) |
| An envelope (‘receiving’) of HARI, an anagram (‘transplant’) of ‘hair’ in CVARI, another anagram (‘eccentric’) of ‘vicar’. | ||
| 27 | SESQUIPEDALIAN | Very long word and polite address to man (Romeo’s papa) by surrealist in hospital (14) |
| An envelope (‘in’) of ESQUIPE, which is ESQUIRE (‘polite address to man’) with the R replaced by P (‘Romeo’s papa’, radio alphabet) plus DALI (‘surrealist’) in SAN (‘hospital’). | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | See 1 across | |
| 2 | ROLLTOP | Desk register taken no further than Ozzie? (7) |
| A charade of ROLL (‘register’) plus TO P (not inclusive, which is a little odd; ‘no further than Ozzie’. In Chambers, and probably many other dictionaries, Ozzie is the last entry for O). | ||
| 3 | EX-HUSBAND | Cross head cooks with buns for first mate (2-7) |
| An anagram (‘cooks’) of X (‘cross’) plus ‘head’ plus ‘buns’. We had a complaint just a couple of days ago from someone whose first mate was not his (in that case) ex. However, with Enigmatist I will take whatever I can get to get a start! | ||
| 4 | TINKERER | Core of hard task set before a meddlesome type (8) |
| The nearest I can get is [s]TINKER (‘hard task set’) plus ER[e] (‘before’), minus its outer letters (‘core’). | ||
| 5 | OREGON | State surrendered, not being ironclad (6) |
| A subtraction: [f]OREGON[e] (‘surrendered’) less the surrounding (‘clad’) FE (chemical symbol ‘iron’). | ||
| 6 | S AND M | Dune dweller missing craft in painful practices (1,3,1) |
| A subtraction: SAND M[artin] (‘dune dweller’) minus ART (‘craft’) and ‘in’. | ||
| 7 | NATURAL | A left turn with a rambling virgin (7) |
| An anagram (‘rambling’) of ‘a’ plus L (‘left’) plus ‘turn’ plus ‘a’. | ||
| 8 | WHEELS IN MOTION | Adroitly moisten with oil at the time massaging gets under way! (6,2,6) |
| An envelope (‘massaging’?) of ELSINMOTIO, an anagram (‘adroitly’) of ‘moisten’ plus ‘oil’ in WHEN (‘at the time’). | ||
| 15 | COSTA RICA | Country area acrostic’s constructed about (5,4) |
| An envelope (‘about’) of A (‘area’) in COSTRICA, an anagram (‘constructed’) of ‘acrostic’. | ||
| 16 | POUNDAGE | Body weight up and ego shattered! (8) |
| An anagram (‘shattered’) of ‘up and ego’. The surface deserves the exclamation mark. | ||
| 18 | BARONNE | A noblewoman’s unexceptional, if new, descendant (7) |
| BAR NONE (‘unexceptional’, in the sense of without exception) with the first N shuffled along a letter (‘if new, descendant’ in a down light). BARONNE, from the French, is a variant on baroness. | ||
| 20 | AFGHANI | Freak ringing Mercury up in capital (Asian capital) (7) |
| A double envelope (‘ringing’ and ‘in’) of GH, a reversal (‘up’ in a down light) of HG (chemical symbol, ‘mercury’) in FAN (‘freak’), all in AI (A- one, ‘capital’). The AFGHANI is the unit of currency in (where else?) Afghanistan. | ||
| 21 | CHICHI | Pretentious indications of Platonic love? (6) |
| The wordplay is CHI, the Greek (‘Platonic’) letter which has the form X (‘indications of love’ – two of them). | ||
| 23 | N AND Q | Abridged journal‘s urge is suppressed in squandering 9! (1,3,1) An anagram (ALL CHANGE, the answer to ‘9’A) of ‘squandering’ less (‘suppressed’) ‘urge is’. I am quite prepared to believe that N & Q is some journal, but I do not have the slightest idea what it is in full. Note that the construction explicitly states that the anagram is taken first, to get URGE IS N AND Q, and then ‘urge is’ can be removed without further anagramming (or, for good measure, the ALL CHANGE could cover ‘urge is’ as well). Afterthought: is it Notes and Queries, for a personal journal, rather than a publication? |
Notes and Queries is a long-running scholarly journal published by OUP.
I got through this, so not a case of sour grapes, but found it really absurdly convoluted (and the 1s the sort of Guardian insider self-reference I dislike).
But thanks anyway!
9D – Think the cryptic indication is just ready = money, put not the paper type of money, so all coins, or “ALL CHANGE”
Now corrected, twice 🙁
9A – Think the cryptic indication is just ready = money, but not the paper type of money, so all coins, or “ALL CHANGE”
Ouch, this took some doing – good job I was up early this morning! Needed help with the parsing of quite a few, so thank you very much for that, PeterO.
I liked 17ac and, especially, the reminder of my favourite Goon at 14ac. Thank you, Enigmatist.
The end of a difficult run of weekday crosswords. Wonder what’s in store for us in the Prize tomorrow!
Great puzzle well blogged-and corrected (9) by Edward @2. I loved Des leaving his car parked.
Thanks Enigmatist (I think) and PeterO (without doubt!)
I always find Enigmatist a challenge, but I can’t remember when I last had so much resort to word-searches, checks, and answers entered only partially parsed. Not an enjoyable experience. I agree with Flavia @1 that it was just too convoluted.
I gave up on the NINON / N AND Q crossers, not having heard of either.
I’m surprised that Enigmatist didn’t use S AND M somehow to give the removed SM from 9a. btw, sand martins don’t live in dunes – river banks are their preferred nesting sites.
Why is “virgin” NATURAL? Untouched, yes, but I don’t see that it’s the same as natural.
I did like OREGON, though I think I’ve seen something similar before.
Another one here who found this too convoluted. I admire those who persevered. Yesterday’s was well worth the time and attention. This one was not for me. Excellent blog. Just reading the parsings took me quite long enough. I thought some of the surfaces, like 2ac made no sense at all.
Thanks and congratulations, PeterO, on a brilliant blog – rather you than me! I managed to ‘finish’ but had no idea of the parsing of COXSWAIN, so extra thanks for that.
It was tough going but really intriguing to solve, with lots of smiles and ahas to keep me going. Too many great clues to mention but I really laughed out loud at CHICHI.
Flavia @1 – I think the answer to 1ac/1dn suggests that, in ‘Notes and Queries’ Enigmatist is referring to the Guardian’s weekly series of readers’ questions and answers, rather than the scholarly journal. As a Guardian reader, I actually enjoyed this insider self-reference.
Many thanks, Enigmatist, for a most enjoyable and satisfying puzzle.
Notes and Queries is a very long-running Guardian column in which readers submit banal questions and other readers reply to them with varying degrees of accuracy an unvarying degrees of interest. It must have been going twenty years: they used to publish “Collected Editions” but I suspect even the money-grabbing hounds at the paper eventually realised that the content was wafer-thin, and best left as ephemeral. Is it a journal? Not really, so I suspect Flavia@1 is correctly deducing Enigmatist’s intentions, and I am just rambling.
Convoluted, definitely! Unsurprisingly, I didn’t finish but I didn’t much enjoy trying.
not for me either !!
convoluted: intricate, tortuous, difficult to understand (Chambers).
Isn’t that the, er, idea?
Too good for me guv, but thanks. One day, maybe.
Well done dear PeterO
Blimey! A real struggle today. Finished all bar about four but ‘revealed’ those as I need to go out. Not sure that I’d have got them anyway. Great challenge……thanks both.
Eventually finished with much recourse to aids to find words to fit checkers and check button to verify guesses. So many thanks to PeterO for parsing of several clues, but I’m with Edward@3 on ALL CHANGE. I agree with muffin@6 on ‘virgin’ for NATURAL.
Surprisingly, I got all except three – AUBADE, NINON and BARONNE – without any help. Unsurprisingly, given Enigmatist’s track record, it was irritating not to be able to parse so many answers. Too clever by half, as my mum used to say.
Thanks, PeterO. You had tough assignment!
Blimey indeed! Because of the italics in this in the clue, I had INFLECTIONS AND ITALICISATIONS for 1a and 1d, which worked except for 2d. Couldn’t get AUBADE or BARONNE. Altogether a bit too hard for me, but I enjoyed the challenge.
To be picky (who, me?), Eccles has been in Greater Manchester for over 40 years, so the clue 14a should perhaps read “…somewhere in Lancashire once”.
Me, I like to keep my FOREGONE and my FORGONE separate, though doubtless there are plenty of dictionaries that have given up on that one.
Enjoyable but pretty tough, not for the first time this week. Learned a few new words – ICTUS, NINON and BARONNE, and had to resort to the Check button a few times due to time constraints.
Thanks to Enigmatist and PeterO
Like some other people I managed to finish this but with several unexplained, so many thanks to PeterO for the blog.
I still don’t quite understand what the definition is in 8d. Is it “gets under way”? The phrase “sets the wheels in motion” means “gets under way” but does WHEELS IN MOTION by itself?
There were some good ones. I particularly liked IMRAN KHAN.
A few years ago I would never have finished this, so being old doesn’t prevent improvement.
A few years ago I would have posted that this was far too convoluted. And every time I said that, the wrath of the community would rapidly descend! Well, nothing has changed in this post, far too convoluted, not at all fun. However, as everyone seems to have already said the same thing, I’m hoping to dodge the wrath bit this time, lol.
Sand martin? Bah.
I was totally convinced “Dune dweller” was SAND WORM (and maintain that would have been better) but I couldn’t get “craft” to mean “WOR”. Still put it in, though.
Thanks to all. I surrendered on this fairly early, being totally not in the mood for this sort of thing. Too many obscure words convoluted constructions, and Britishisms for me. Odds are good tomorrow’s Prize will be easier.
So glad I had a day off so was able to give this full concentration before setting off on a lovely walk on the Kent coast. A proper headscratcher of an Enigmatist with lots to enjoy so thank you to him and to Peter O for explaining everything so well.
I got on quite well with Enigmatist’s last offering but this was really difficult and,yes,far too convoluted. I got N and Q purely from the crossers and I remain baffled by it. I had to cheat to get BARRONE and then AUBADE fell into place. Some nice cluing but far too much of a slog to be enjoyable.
A grudging thanks to Enigmatist.
JimS @20
It was just an oversight not to indicate the definition in 8D, but looking at it now, I think it was a wise mistake to make. Whether ‘gets’ is included in the “definition” or not, the grammar is doubtful. If pressed, I would probably go with the latter, but perhaps the best is to put it down as an allusive reference.
crypticsue @24
I hope the puzzle did not delay your walk too much, but perhaps you got the order correct!
Thanks Enigmatist and PeterO
What an excellent puzzle. Stretching teh rain, constructing unknown (to me) words and discovering they exist, imaginative clueing. Certainly it was hard but for me, well worth persevering with for those moments when the light suddenly shines in.
I agree with muffin and Flavia that this puzzle was too convoluted. It was solvable with crossword aids (like yesterday’s Paul), but in amongst all the really good clues were those that went too far, resulting in a few “Oh dear!” rather than “Aha!” moments (again a bit like yesterday’s Paul).
I’m grateful to Flavia for pointing out the OUP journal Notes and Queries. To me, this justifies 23D (N AND Q) – otherwise I would have said this is something for an in-crowd (of Guardian readers). What about 1A/1D, though? – it was not hard to get, but I’m not sure if this is a phrase recognised outside the Guardian.
I liked 14A (ECCLES) – a clue in three parts. I liked 21D (CHICHI) even better – now that was an Aha! moment. I thought ‘surrendered’ to indicate ‘foregone’ in 5D (OREGON) was a bit naughty.
Thanks to Enigmatist for such a challenging crossword and to PeterO for the blog.
Thanks to PeterO and enigmatist.
Well, I finished it eventually, but by the time I got to the end I’d forgotten the clues I liked. And that’s giving up on some of the parsing.
Still, some of the comments here give me hope maybe it’s not just old age slowing me down
Derek @21
Well said. I’m only sorry you didn’t find this fun. I agree with you and others that this was too convoluted, but I got enough enjoyment from it to soldier on. (As I’ve said already, I had a similar experience yesterday.) I prefer not to resort to crossword aids but will do so if the puzzle is stimulating enough and good fun – otherwise I just put it down and look forward to the next one.
Thanks to Enigmatist and PeterO. I composed a response hours ago but lost my internet connection before I could send it. I have nothing to add to the discussion above other than back in the 1960s I had a small piece in the journal Notes & Queries (later there was a spin-off American Notes & Queries). At least that clue worked for me.
When I saw it was an Enigmatist this morning I knew it was going to take me more than the hour I slot for a daily. So, for me a breath of fresh air. I always read this forum but rarely post, ever since I was called a troll (should see me hair now). Not a single issue with the clues. No tedious repetitions, unlike one in particular this week. Guardianistas (ie readers of the newspaper) will be familiar with 1ac and 1dn, which held me up when I entered them the wrong way round. Likewise, Nandq, However, all solvable thanks to the clueing. Am a pen(cil) and paper girl. Online solving is too easy when one has a cheat button. Learned a lot from this puzzle especially 27ac . Isn’t that the point? Glad I didnt have to blog this. So thanks Peter O and Enigmatist, both.
I thought this was very difficult: as others have said the end of a VERY difficult week. Not complaining as I like a challenge. Suspect tomorrow’s comp will be a bit of a problem. Anyway thanks to all the setters( and the bloggers) for a very demanding week.
Thank you Enigmatist and especially thank you PeterO.
At least ECCLES was there to lighten the task, my favourite clue…
… a Roman slave galley drew nigh to Ostia.
Slave Driver: In! Out! In! Out! In!…
Eccles: Make up your mind…
Bluebottle: Have you ever rowed a gallery before, Eccelus?
Eccles: Is that what we’re doing?
Bluebottle: Yes.
Eccles: No, I’ve never done this before.
Slave Driver: Faster, you dogs!
Bluebottle: He wants us dogs to go faster.
Slave Driver: Silence, you scum!
Eccles: He wants us scum to go silent –
Slave Driver: Or do you want a taste of the lash?
Bluebottle: No, thanks, I just had some cocoa.
Most of this was too difficult for me. I did get 21dn, though, but only by remembering Chi Chi the panda whose love life only amounted to platonic relationships.
Too convoluted for me too. 10a was an early one in but I couldn’t parse it satisfactorily. To me someone is “church” if they are a churchgoer. The majority of churchgoers are laymen i.e not clergy.
Thus far, there are 8 out of 36 comments that mentioned the word ‘convoluted’.
It’s a bit like Brexit.
If you mention the word over and over again, then it feels that it must be the real thing.
Convoluted means convoluted.
As with Brexit, I don’t agree.
I thought this was a marvellous crossword.
Not that I could fully finish it without using dictionaries etc.
Parsing a clue after getting the solution first can still be satisfying, though.
Well, that applies to me but I do understand that this is not what everyone (including the proverbial Man in the Tube) appreciates.
Many thanks to our beloved setter and to PeterO for an admirable effort to blog perhaps the most difficult puzzle of this week.
Still, I think Nimrod is generally a lot harder than Enigmatist.
Often I give up on Nimrod (and IO) while JH’s Guardian alter ego hardly ever defeats me.
I admit, he defeated me having only pen and paper.
But I liked it.
This was well above my comfort level (that’s not a complaint, by the way). A lot of the answers were ‘guess, then parse’.
ICTUS and BARONNE were new to me. For TINKERER, I saw [s]TINKER and also considered ER[e] for “before”, but I didn’t put that together with “core”, so I couldn’t fully resolve it. I didn’t know that the AFGHANI is a unit of currency as well as a nationality so, even though I got the wordplay, I didn’t understand the definition. I should have googled and I’d have found it, but I was losing heart by then. I also got CHI as the Greek X but for some reason didn’t recognise it as an “indication of love”. I guessed at “Note and Queries” for N AND Q, but forgot to go back to it after I had solved 9a. I doubt that would have helped me parse it.
For ALL CHANGE, which I did get, I too took the first part as an alternative cryptic definition – ‘ready money’ but all coins, no notes.
Thanks, Enigmatist and PeterO.
PS
Thanks, Jovis – your reminder @35 about the Platonic nature of Chi Chi’s relationships made me smile.
Rather pleased with how I wnet on that one. A bit of chance kmowledge helped with one or two that some found obscure – eg ICTUS is used in music to describe the point in the conductor’s baton swishing which actually indicates the beat – I dont knwo how that works these days when (for big orchestras at least) they all seem to conduct ahead of the beat – at the start they just seem to swish around – presumably the leader eventually thinks: “OK guys let’s play this one” and they all follow the movement of his (or her) bow.
It’s a shame to have *any* obscurities at all in puzzles like this where familiar long phrases are a key featur – but if you’ve ever tried to fill a grid you’ll appreciate the difficulty of achieveing both – unless the obscurities are intentional.
Loosen up the grid design rules I say – rotational symmetry is entirely unnecessary – unch ratios – within reason likewise.
Does the Guardian still have Notes and Queries? It was great – and witty – when it started – now it’s just a lot of pseudo-intellectuals trying to sound clever (N&Q – not the whole paper – oops – correction – both). Maybe that’s the role of the other N&Q – BTW (#1) what does “scholarly” mean these days?
Thanks all – good tussle – never miss these. Elements of Araucaria – not the full monty – but who is?
Sil @37
I don’t see what you are getting at with your little essay on the word ‘convoluted’ at the start of your comment.
It was already clear to me that many of the clues of this crossword could be described as ‘convoluted’ before I came here to post. When you look at the way all the wordplay devices available to the setter have been (cleverly) used in this puzzle, and the many detailed comments made on this page, ‘convoluted’ is undoubtedly a good way to describe the general nature of this crossword.
I really don’t think condemnation by repetition was at play here. The word ‘convoluted’ was appropriate – certainly for many of the clues. Whether the crossword was ‘too convoluted’ [for its own good] is a matter of opinion, and you and I evidently differ. For me, it detracted from the fun; for you it was marvellous. I’m glad you enjoyed it so much.
You said
“Parsing a clue after getting the solution first can still be satisfying, though.”
I agree, and it happened a lot here. I am not an intuitive solver by nature (I sometimes wish I was!), and I therefore had to work hard on some parts of this puzzle. I still enjoyed what I called the ‘really good clues’ (I highlighted two and would have mentioned more if I had posted earlier and had more time).
I’m late to the party but just wanted to say thanks for a great blog. I managed to get 22 out of 28 answers and was so maddened that I googled one of the clues in the hope of finding not just “what” but “why”, and came upon this site.
I’m so out of touch that I don’t know what “crossword aids” are – I have a Collins Modern English Dictionary that’s 40 years old and doesn’t have the words charivari or sesquipedalian, so not much help (both words I’d heard but couldn’t define).
Thanks again
Paul
Sil @37
Of course crossword clues should be “convoluted”. What I, and several others, said was that several of these were <b?too convoluted.
Part of being Enigmatist, probably, is that you can perform your wizardry without resorting to quirks of asymmetry, or the wearying provision of unchfest. Because that’s what makes a good crossword so good, isn’t it? Rules and conventions are observed, but with a lightness that reveals the setter’s art.
But then if you’ve ever tried filling a grid …
Muffin @43 (and Alan Browne @41), I am not sure crossword clues are always ‘convoluted’.
But one thing is sure, I have never seen a John Henderson crossword that is not full of convoluted clues.
It was clear to me that many commenters meant ‘too convoluted’.
In general, this setter’s puzzles are always somewhere in between ‘convoluted’ and ‘too convoluted’.
While I cannot not always finish his crosswords (certainly not without external help or a solving partner), I am in awe of the quality of these puzzles.
Including today’s – totally unique.
Just like Liz @32, I am a pen and paper person.
If I cannot find a solution, I try to find possible words that fit then work backwards to make sense of the clue.
No ‘cheat’ button for me.
Some may say that what I do is also cheating but at least my brain still has to do something – in my opinion, just a bit more than trying to parse a solution.
As far as the introduction of my comment @37 is concerned, reading all the posts in a row it did feel like repetition.
But don’t worry, I didn’t want to give thumbs down to all those who experienced this Enigmatist as too convoluted.
And the Brexit connection? It was just there for a light touch.
Anyway, as I said before, I liked it.
Meanwhile, I can see why others didn’t.
ps, the stunning anagram at 1ac, 1d I found early on which was very important as it gave me the full first row and column.
Providing loads of starting letters for other clues, which helped enormously (almost like a nina).
Thanks PeterO and Enigmatist.
It was a struggle but I got there in the end needing half a dozen revisits over 3 days to complete.
ICTUS, AUBADE, and SESQUIPEDALIAN were all new words which took varying amounts of research to verify but nothing unfair in the clues.
I came to the same conclusion as you PeterO on the parsing of TINKERER and parsed N AND Q but haven’t heard of the journal so thanks to the contributors above.
Tough but not unfair. Trouble is that I’m now more than a week behind so lots of catching up to do.
Thanks Enigmatist and PeterO
Hamish … you’re only a week behind !!! Six months for me … and no hope of catching up – mainly focusing on the FT ones now !!
As for this one, it went for an elapsed 12 days although I must admit that it did lay dormant for quite a few of those days. Eventually got the grid completed and only had TINKERER not completely parsed – had STINKER and ERE but couldn’t go the extra step and ‘core them’.
Just chipped away at this one getting two or three at one time, none the next, a few more another time and finally AUBADE, EX-HUSBAND, ALL CHANGE and TINKERER in a rush early this morning (strangely enough all without aids) and wondered why they had held me up for so long.
This setter is well known for compiling complex word plays and that is one of the main reasons to sit down and take him on – one knows that they are in for a tough battle and for me it is roll up your sleeves with no time limits to get it finished … and if you can, then good on you !!! Today with no errors which was an additional bonus !!!