An enjoyable solve and with a couple of gettable longer solutions helping me get started into the grid. Looked down a couple of paths for possible themes but haven’t found anything convincing. Favourite clues were 1ac, 10ac, 13ac, and 14ac. Thanks to Brummie.
Day: 27 July 2021
Inquisitor 1708: Coward by Skylark
Skylark, the third of four female setters in Ladies’ month (although this July has five Saturdays so there’s room for one more). Preamble: Symmetrical grid entries contain the endings of four lines … Read more >>
Financial Times 16848 Goliath
Thank you to Goliath. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Note as clever? Not half! (6) QUAVER : QUA(as/being/in the capacity of, as in “President Trump qua president was no different … Read more >>
Independent 10,854 by Italicus
Italicus makes one of his relatively rare appearances today