Hi Trevor,
Apology accepted. I'm not lacking in a sense of humour and have found some of your posts on other threads to be funny but it just seemed that you and Terry weren't making any constructive contribution.
John D'Arran and Philip started this thread some time ago and it is particularly useful to those of us who attempt the Radio Times crossword because of the idiosyncratic thinking of the compiler and, incidentally, when one of us says that it took half an hour to complete the crossword it's merely a yardstick of the difficulty
not a boast.
Kind regards,
Caravaggio