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Start in cell f, and, yes, make knight's moves from there to spell out the name.

Oh, and I thought of you when I read 41.

I need some cheering up at the end of this challenging year and when I read Jack Aubrey's post about the success of his treatment I rejoiced. I have been there and know how relieved he must feel. To Jack and all other contributors I hope that you can have the best possible Chrstmas. I am trying to have an unbad one.

Having signed off I've spent another hour on the puzzle and the knight's moves produced the name of the finder. On to the end game. If I am correct 1 across 6 down need to be altered and are to be derived from the letters unused in the clashes. However I seem to have produced the following: SALGRI. Have I made a mistake? It suggests I find place for the A and the L if I am interpreting the instructions correctly.

I hope this questions is still in the spirit of this forum. We are all into the week and this afternoon's announcement means that I won't be straying far from the home sandbank so it would be nice to finish on a high. No papers here next Saturday.

Thanks

SALGRI is excellent

The 2 words have connections with the teams who played in the 1915 FA Cup Final.

...and they are at 44 and 33. 1 and 6 is a character in the ancient legend

Thank you folks for the kind comments. I do indeed feel lucky. Won’t see the kids or the grandson at Christmas, but nevertheless feel like I’ve had a present!

That's great news Jack, hope you get to the family soon:-)

Well, I enjoyed the puzzle and all the connections. But I can’t agree that the red-herring/elephant-trap was “brilliant”, or any of the other positive words applied to it here. There was no way to detect it as a trap, or discern the correct approach, from the material given. That just made it tiresome. A more carefully written preamble could have resolved that, and made it into a clever trap, but as written the preamble definitely suggests that “a more modern hunter” and “a successful hunter” are different people. I found that carelessness (or, if it was deliberate, tiresomeness) and some shaky clueing slightly — but only slightly — spoiled an otherwise ingenious puzzle.