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Hi, Chris. I'm sure I saw your "time" quote on the cover of an album one of my friends had in the early 70s. I can't for the life of me remember what the album or band was.

ChrisE, the old ones are sometimes the best. I think your 'fruit flies' quote had been around for quite a while by the time you heard it!

Grunger, even my mother - one of the worst cooks ever - knew that chips are much better if cooked twice. This results in fluffy insides and crispy outsides. The Academist clue involves an anagram, the Olympians has a four-letter 'main' inside a four-letter 'our opponents' - leading to 'rule of Olympians'.

I didn't see any SA clues, maybe my brain now filters out those?!

M

I hope this message reaches you in your new (dis)guise.

I cant go to the Times final as it clashes with football. However, the "factual" report could be written now as the winner is already known. At least I could say that most years, but the regular champion made an error last year. That's the problem for the stars - putting in answers without parsing, to save time.

I will happily do a 200-word report after the event, from a different perspective.

Grunger

If you are still stuck after M's hints, for the Academist one, think of what you have to do to eat your pies. For the other one, try "us and them", but how you would say it in Wigan!

Malone

My mother also did that with chips. She half-cooked them, as she said, wrapped them in a tea towel for a few hours, then completed the cooking. I suppose Grunger means it is too much trouble to do that, and there must be a way of doing it once. I dont know - I have never cooked a chip in my life - except frozen ones in the oven.

The SA clue threw me - I assumed it would an IT one but "SA team" was just SA side, so OK

The "time flies" quote reminds me of the old puzzle to punctuate the following sentence to make sense:-

time flies you cannot they fly too fast

Jigjag

Thanks for the crossword championship update. Any report from you will be greatly received.

Thanks too for the chips info... though thanking you for actual chips would be even better, I quite fancy some now!

Grunger
The first cooking of chips results in totally uncoloured, but cooked through chips. These should be then left to cool - I put mine in the fridge, my mother simply set them aside for five minutes. The cooking oil, fat, lard, whatever then gets heated to a higher temperature - the chips probably need only another three or four minutes to turn crisp and golden.

My #296 should read " punctuate the following to make sense".

Jigjag

I sailed past that clue. My brain must have been working well - it didn't give me even the merest micro-second of a pause, no grimacing about IT, SA, any of that nonsense.

Nemo,

I was going to go back to your earlier post, but there was far too much scrolling involved! You could always post your query, thoughts, suggestion again.

nemo's was 926, not 296 (I agree that the latter would take a lot of scrolling!)