Never knowingly undersolved
One of Punk’s typically excellent crosswords: not easy to solve — particularly while the gateway clue was still a mystery to me — but quite straightforward after the event, as it should be.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
A feast of jumbling from the Panjandrum of anagrams Sayang this morning.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27509.
A pleasant start to a working week of crosswords from ARMONIE.
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