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Excellent, thanks Ginge.

Brendan, glad to hear you carried on with this. Hope you got it all finished off - and that you enjoyed it?

I agree, malone, that this was a lovely puzzle. And it made a nice change not to have misprints in the clues or clashing cells.

It took me longer than it should have because I thought it was going to be a fictional, Raffles type crime. Also searches on the internet on paying for the TV licence only threw up the current debates on it.

I'm not quite old to enough to remember this crime and the culprit has an unusual name that does not leap out of the puzzle, so there was a lot of grid staring.

I have a full grid with a 4x2 hole.....
Give me a tiny clue what to do next? Please!

Lumen, you need to put something - similarly shaped - into the hole. If you've found the story of the theft, you'll see where the item was later discovered - that's spelt out in the grid. The item was found 'IN' there...so you should see another term/name/title for the 'object'.

No....I haven't found the story!
But I'll think on.

Thanks, Lumen. H'mm, wondering how to nudge you...

The replacement is the exact same size and shape and spells out two four-letter words...

I'm really enjoying this but, to date, have yet to find any robbers etc. - but I shall persevere.

Can I just check that 32a is one of the "no wordplay" clues and the letters are PA?

Yes, Brendan, that's right.

Excellent, thanks Chips - the search continues....