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Chambers has "mothy", full of moths; moth-eaten.
So that part fits!

Good morning, Rusty!
I am just back from my walk - conducted unfortunately in yet more fog!
It is not as dense as yesterday but unpleasant enough .
What is it like with you?
I am still riding high on Jess' Damehood!!
I see that Sir Roger Bannister - at the age of 87 - has been made a Companion of Honour for services to sport.
What a long time ago since he broke the four- minute mile.........
I hadn't connected the name Harry Roberts with the Shepherd's Bush murders.
But it was a good few years before I came to live and work in London.
We have no plans for today, apart from tidying up ready for tomorrow!
Have you bought in enough food to feed your "first-footers"?

Hello, Elle!
Yes, pleased for Jess!
Rumblings on the cycling forums about no Damehood for Trotty.
GB's most successful female Olympian.
Maybe when she retires.
I know the murders were outside a London prison.
Wandsworth or Wormwood Scrubs?
It began with a "W", I remember.
Took three months to find Roberts.
I think he is out of jail now.
No food for revellers.
But, I am sure I shall find something for them!
Very windy today!

Do you think my post 11580 is a good idea?

For what it's worth, I do Ros !

Hi, Rusty!
I am alternating doing household jobs and crosswords!
Probably not the most efficient way of doing either!
I have done the Times Jumbo GK and the 15 x15, although there are still several to be parsed in the latter!
I shall have to puzzle over them!
My husband offered to go to the shops with the "list", so that is a chore done!
( I didn't fancy braving the fog yet again!)
I wonder why Laura wasn't picked for a Damehood?
I am just glad that Jess was!
It would have been Wormwood Scrubs prison as that is in the right location, in Shepherd's Bush.
This day is moving far too quickly for me........ten past two, already!


Sorry, Ros, I cannot remember he original clue!
Something to do with "tea" and finding a word that sounds like it!
Maybe?

Good afternoon, Pigale!
Still foggy here!
It is really damp and depressing!
Hope your village is getting better weather?

Hello, Elle!
I am not keen on the Times setter today.
Some very iffy clues/solutions.
Yes, I am pleased for Jess, too.
I think perhaps, Trotty is a member of the British Cycling group and they and Team Sky are under a cloud of their own making just now.
Cyclists are not the flavour of the month.
There was nothing for Jo Rowsell or Elinor Barker, either, who both won golds in Rio, with Trotty.
Shepherd's Bush rings a bell.
The police car's call sign was Foxtrot something?

The "Timothy" clue.
Why would tea be an "afternoon beverage"?
It is drunk at all other hours of the clock, too, surely.

Hi, Rusty!
I am pleased that I have at least filled in all the answers to the puzzle......they were done by virtue of the crossers and my partial parsings!
I cannot really say that the crossword is "finished" until I have worked out the remaining parses.
I have six still to go......oops!
Now regarding "tea".......
In theory......
"Afternoon tea" is a meal served with a range of teas (to drink) accompanied by finger sandwiches, homemade scones with clotted cream & jam, and a wide selection of seasonal cakes and pastries..
When my husband retired , his hospital hosted such an event for those members of staff leaving after twenty-five years of service and above.
The award giving ceremony was held at the Savoy Hotel in London.
And we were all offered afternoon tea afterwards!
The choice of teas was incredible!
I of course do not drink tea.......but a member of staff was kind enough to find me a coffee!!
It was a grand occasion!

Hello, Elle!
Well done to your husband!
I have heard of the Savoy Hotel!
I understand it is quite grand!
Now, "afternoon tea" is a meal, I agree, not a beverage, that is what's puzzling me.
Could be just a poor setter of course, or something I am not seeing?
I have recorded "84 Charing Cross Road", and have had a brief look at it, and it is a lot better than the book!
Anthony Hopkins is in it. A fine actor!

I was interviewed for my first job over lunch at the Savoy, it was a real marathon. One of the men interviewing me said the avocado was very good. I had never eaten one and didn't know what it was. Unripe is the word (I learned afterwards). Then I asked for chicken, it came whole, complete with numerous bones, a gravy waiter (jus probably), vegetable waiter, water waiter and wine one. Trying to deal with all this while answering questions wasn't easy (my train was delayed, they'd had lunch aready). Got the job, though!
Afternoon tea at the Ritz can be had at several hours of the day, as it is so popular. When my son treated me there, we had to arrange for butterless sandwiches, no fruit cake and no tea or coffee (for him)! I forgot to change out of my trainers, which they do not allow. So I belted into Clarks, which had a sale, grabbed the nearest pair of heels the right size and put them on in a dorrway. They fitted and I still wear them.
Afternoon beverage describes tea perfectly to me, I only drink it about 4 p.m. But I know others drink it several times a say.