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Phew! Such a relief, after this week's bruising IQ and Listener, to have a fairly straight forward and pleasant puzzle - and no problems with the endgame either.

Just what I needed:-)

Brendan

I agree with you. One complaint though. 6D includes "that've" which is inelegant when "that have" would do. The only excuse for it would be for a misprint of "that're". I assumed this was the case so had a misprint of "R" in the description. Very irritating.

jigjag

Yes I wondered about that - there was no need for it. Can anyone explain please?

I thought 32d must be ‘waite’ but it’s not on Chambers. Any help please.

Cloverjo, it's in my 13th ed Chambers - quite a good way down.

Thank you, malone. I didn’t read far enough down ))

Cloverjo, thanks. When you said 'on Chambers', I wondered if you were using another version, app, whatever!

Normally, when I see something as clunky as "that've" I immediately assume it's been crowbarred in to make an anagram or for an extra letter that needs removing, but in this instance it wasn't for any of those reasons - very strange 🤪

I have "waite" too. I think the "p" from the misprint must be in this clue, probably "Poet's keen patch" but I dont know why.

Brendan

I agree - very odd but solvers seem to have accepted it. It is not like Chalicea to do something as daft as this.

I just need the Aussie water hole one - "*ilgai" - I dont want to go through Chambers if I am on the wrong track.