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Really enjoyable puzzle - and certainly never seen anything similar before (although i am by no means a veteran) - thanks stick insect.

Can someone pls explain the title, and also with parsing of 28 (im expecting to emit a d'oh or two)!

Andyp,
Re the title, I think Mint is a synonym of 'coin', and 'sauce' is an anagrind.
28d. Ar. is an abbreviation of 'Arab'.

Oh,I took the 'sauce' as a homophone...

You are probably correct, Malone 😏

Thanks, Mattrom. I often don't like the 'homophones', maybe I was trying to be more charitable than usual?

Re post #37 - I'm sure there are mitigating circumstances - but it looks as though a valued member of our group has been disproportionately offended by another - may I suggest that a simple apology would restore the even tenor of our conversations - which had become so much more tranquil in recent weeks - and rehabilitate everyone in harmony and mutual esteem?

Rapprochement...

- post #34 first.

Quixote, what pompous humbug. Tatters has been breaching the Times’ copyright for a long while, and not everybody considers his “service” valuable, or even acceptable. If you want access to the Listener before the paper is published, you are more than welcome to pay for a subscription. Lockdowns are a thing of the past now, so that justification no longer applies.

For the sake of 'harmony and mutual esteem' couldn't you tone it down a little, quisling?
I'm grateful to tatters for his contribution and I think the copyright issue is best left to The Times - if you're peeved because someone is getting free of charge something you're paying for then rest assured I've been paying a lot more to have my hard copy of The Times delivered throughout.

I have a Times subscription which gives access to a couple of thousand old Listener puzzles as well as the new one at 16.00 every Friday. I consider it good value even though I rarely use it for news.
That said I don’t see that sharing a link to the weekly puzzle is such a terrible crime. A quick look at any social media platform will reveal hundreds of examples of newspaper content being shared for the benefit of the wider community.
I don’t know what the situation is in law though.