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Thanks tatters : )

Obrigado por isso, tatters.

Well goodness, that was easy! What am I going to do with the rest of the weekend?!

....are we looking at the same puzzle? 🤔

Yep - my earliest ever finish I reckon.

Fun enough

A perfectly good puzzle. But there are an increasing number of this level of difficulty. Meaty ones are becoming very few and far between. Fine if they want to encourage new solvers, but: how are they supposed to know it has been dumbed down and made more approachable? The hardest part of this was understanding the preamble, which is where a novice would be put off. Surely a grading system like the Magpie would at least give a hint. Or maybe the preponderance of A (and occasional B) grades would reveal an awkward truth. A bit like real life, I suppose. Or are we all becoming cleverer at a rate of knots? Yep, that must be it

Certainly less hard work than last week but I didn’t find this a total pushover. The final stage held me up because I failed to read the preamble properly!

I had to re-read it too! But once I'd sussed it, all tallies at 21 additional cells. Not the most challenging ever but with some entertaining clues, and unusual for me to find my local town in a crossword for a change.

Wasn't one of the entries a word that got someone into an awful lot of bother very recently? Still it's in Chambers so good enough for me!

Thanks Chen.

Ta tats