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I’ve not started this yet, but I see a bar-less grid and “clues are given in the normal order”, so it’s possible that people might find this useful that I set up with a similar one a few weeks ago:

https://codepen.io/dcwarwick/live/BaRmbpe

You can set an 8x8 grid and 180 symmetry, but, sorry, it doesn’t (yet…) have an option to use letters for clue identifiers with separate identifiers for across and down starting in the same cell! :-)

I am not a fan of numericals, despite being a mathematician, but this one does not look quite as tiresome as most do. Having just started, I have F and two alternatives for T. In clue B, one of the Ts makes T - 3F zero. That means that B could be any two digit number (subject to the parity constraint), since they are all factors of zero.

I have the feeling that we ought to be using B to decide that this does not happen and so eliminate that value for T. Has anyone else thought about this?

You need the other (bigger) value of T

I appreciate that this is what is intended, but you cannot eliminate the smaller value at this stage unless you have further information. Mind you, I have only done about five steps up to now.

Foinaven - for me that was disambiguated by equation a

Thanks, Candledave. I will follow this up. I still suspect that the issue might have been ignored by the setter, and many solvers would immediately discard the smaller value because of 'ambiguity'.

Think you’re probably right, foinaven.

Personally, I was a bit confused by it and wasn’t sure what to do and wondered if I had gone wrong somewhere, so was hoping it would get resolved for definite later on

Even if you do not have f yet to calculate a, there is no possible value for E which can be derived if T - F - F - F = 0

The problem with numericals is that if you make a mistake you have to start again. If I listed my answers could someone tell me which ones are wrong or is this a breach of etiquette?

Captain, rather than give the answers here check them over at Facebook - Johannes DeSilentio.