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Lumen,
7d. It's a French Department (5) Only there to show that you are looking for a French word.
30d. Take 1 letter from 'wide' and anagram for a synonym of 'attach to'.

Sorry, for clarification - 5/6 of Arnhem, to make [a French person’s islands]; similar to Virginia’s cutter = ax etc.

7d is the river, not the department, and is quite famous for 2 decisive battles. The river contains examples of the 4 letter word so is there for that reason not just to indicate the geographical area.

True dat.

Lumen @ 89, surely it's worth the cost of the Times on a Saturday (unless you're outside the UK) to continue doing the Listener?

Finally finished. The penny dropped very late for me. Thanks for all help, never heard of that river.
Loge, I’m not in full time work, and I buy the Guardian and the I every Saturday, papers I like and want to read. I don’t like the bulk of the Saturday Times, 200 pages? 199 of which I wouldn’t look at.

Fair enough Lumen, though the Times costs less than a pint and the Listener lasts far longer!

For what it’s worth, my wife - a freelance professional news photographer - has a digital only subscription to the Times. (She has it, quite literally, just to look at the pictures.) The subscription was originally taken out when there was a “come on” low price on offer. Every quarter when the subscription is due to renew she rings up to cancel and invariably gets offered a discount, at which point she says that she still wants to cancel - and duly gets offered a much more substantial discount. The subscription includes family use and I get the Mephisto and Listener from that, without having to carry several pounds of newsprint back from the shop.

The Telegraph (an organ I would not want to touch, much less read) still has a crossword only digital subscription of less than £40 per annum. That makes the EV (I don’t do the others) about 75p a pop which I think is well worth it.

As to papers one does want to read, if you are a member of a local library, check whether they support the Press Reader service (most do). Through that service I get the Scotsman, Herald, Guardian and Independent daily and the Observer, Scotland on Sunday and The Week magazine weekly delivered digitally to my iPad at no cost. Which means I can get the papers I want anywhere in the world where I can get wifi - reading what was technically the next day’s Observer over breakfast in Irkutsk was a slightly surreal experience….

Thanks Jack. Just called, significant discount for next 6 months.

I subscribed last week. It was £1 for 3 months rising to (I think) about £26 a month thereafter. I've diarised to ring up and cancel just before it renews - let's see what discount they offer me. In the meantime.....