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Tyke

Thats clever - I like it!

Sempster and sempstress are both listed in my Chambers as equivalent to seamster and seamstress. I have heard these used here in Scotland but it was a long time ago. I have a nagging feeling that there is another word with a similar construction but I cannot for the life of me remember it (if it even exists).

parallelogram

thanks for that - a silent "P". Next time I hear an old lady say "sem-stress", I will ask her how she spells it, seamstress or sempstress.

tyke

congrats on winning battle of the Rovers

Grunger

Thanks - very pleased to hang on for the win - I watched it live on FA Player, which is new to me but free! Hope we get an easy draw next ... Everton or Man Utd will do!

Morning.

A clue from yesterday's Times puzzle triggered off some grumping and grouching from me....

Free novel initially enjoyed by fashionable young man (8)

Not too tricky, but put out of your mind any novels written in the last 133 years.

In the current Listener 38a is triggering me. Once the misprint is fixed, the definition and the entry have the same root word.

Mathprofrockstar, I too found that odd ... and not great!

Malone

Sorry - cant solve your clue. Give up

Hi jigjag
It was BUCKSHEE - BUCK SHE (the novel in question) E

Thanks, ChrisE.

Jigjag, the 'novel = She' is as bad as 'actor/old actor = Tree' in my eyes! I certainly don't want puzzles filled with teenspeak and Love Island references, but the examples cited smack slightly of laziness, I feel.