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yes to the shire ending

Yeah 2D and 7D were so obscure I had to go to a site for former counties of the UK.

7D was quite a good clue though (parse-wise) but I certainly wouldn't have got it just from the wordplay. Ken Loach is known for different kinds of films these days, so I forgot that was one of his.

Hi everyone

I was worried I wouldn't have time for the crossword today as I was out all day (Riverside Field Kitchen - Rocky - it was excellent. I haven't been for a few years, I would recommend it). But I started at 5.30pm and finished by 7.00pm. (Sorry Jennerallisimo). It was unusual for me to be able to just write them in especially as the quick crossword seems so hard today. I did need to google some to remind me and I didn't know 7d. It has just taken me ages to read through all the hints here and I'm grateful for the explanation of some of the parsings, especially 3d and 7d. I was going to ask about the parsing for 19ac, but I've just got it.

My FOI was 13ac and my COD was 11ac like most of you. My LOI was 19ac.

Nice to have an easy one for once. And nice to have a reminder of Thor Heyerdahl - I read his book as a teenager and I'm ever so old now.

jenneralissima @80
I'm sorry that you didn't find this easy, but I don't think that you can complain about so many of us posting that we found it so.

Roof @84
I read Thor Heyerdahl's raft and Easter Island books when I was was young, and was fascinated by them. Unfortunately later research has completely disproved all his theories!

It did not help that the site I was looking at for the counties had a different spelling of 2D, but I knew about the variant spelling of the place.

I was expecting this to be really hard (since I suck at geography and historical stuff), but once I got the 15 letter downers it was pretty straightforward, and I usually take a long time doing the prize. I struggled a bit at the end, with 3D, 11A, 16A, 22A but got them without any hints in the end. (Needed to guess and then Wikipedia for LOI 16A).

Took me 3 hours so not as straightforward as some other people, but most of that time was spent on the last 4.

jennaralissima, 2d is an anagram. Given all the crossers, I was (surprisingly) able to guess the solution, though I needed to confirm it with Google.
Parsing of 7d is more complicated, that was strictly a Google thing for me. Brendan parsed it near the top of the thread.

Thanks, geeker. And, yes, chrise, this was simpler than most prize crosswords but 2D, even though I have all the crossers, know what the anagram is, and know the ending, thanks to jazzgirl, continues to elude me. I've plugged in several variations into Google and got nothing so I guess if I just kept on going I'd get it eventually but instead I'm just going to forget it and wait for the solution to be published.

So, if 2D is just another Wikipedia lookup clue then what's the point? I'd rather the solutions be reasonably well-known words in the English language that are craftily clued than anagrams that you plug into a website. Where's the challenge in that?

2D is Welsh not English, hence the alternative spelling option.