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I've managed to finish and found it quite enjoyable.
The fact that I didn't notice there were 2 Ps held me up for a while.

Borritt, 1800 seconds..

I have it all done apart from the first P.
The crossers are P?S?E? I can see that I could make the two components of the word play with these but that doesn't seem to make a word - not one that's in Chambers anyway. Help appreciated.

It's a hidden clue.

Ignore my last post. The penny just dropped. I really am a bear of very little brain!

I usually manage these quite well, but have made a complete pigs ear of this one. Have retrieved my neighbour's paper from her recycling bin, and am about to start again. I've solved most, but for the life of me can't find the starting point for insertion.

Would anyone care to tell me which answer (just the letter) they inserted first, so I can try to replicate their thinking? And please don't say P...

X at 9a

ruralfelicity
It was the first P! I wrote it in across; although this might have been wrong, it turned out OK.

I started with the M and D which were the only two 7 letter words and therefore had to go across the middle.

Thanks all. I crossed X with O and then couldn't fit M into either of the 7s. Went downhill from there.