This appeared yesterday Weds 8 May. The crossword was a lot of fun with a musical theme and lots of diversion and misdirection.
I am puzzled by the parsing of one pivotal clue, 13a: the fifteensquared analysis is below.
13 QUARTET Say 4 getting stripped off ‘offensive’? Solutions include each member of such a group with G-strings on (7)
A charade of [s]QUAR[e] (‘say, 4’) minus its outer letters (‘stripped off’) plus TET (‘offensive’ in the Vietnam war). The ‘G-strings’ are the lowest strings of a violin.
Now in the body of the crossword there were four solutions whinch embed the names of four instruments of a string quartet:
limonCELLO, VIOLted, drAMATIc, leSTRADe
... which is really clever. My query is what the final bit about G strings has to do with it, and where the 'definition' is given (if there is one - the "Solutions include..." part of the clue is not really a definition.)
Did anyone else spot something more in this cunning piece of work?