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Ok, got 13... now for the end game!

Ah... lovely! All sorted. Impressive.

Struggles with the endgame, hunting down myriad rabbit holes. Still going after a correction leads to the first big PDM.

Then slaps forehead because it's all so obvious, even clarifying what to enter for 11/6.

Brilliant puzzle, Botox. I wish I'd been a smarter solver.

Actually, just one issue... without the OED I can't confirm what exactly 11/6 looks like, which is annoying. Off to the library.

As per #2, I still can't make sense of how to enter the pairs of overlapping answers, when it would seem that there are more than two cells worth of overlap.

Otherwise, some progress since yesterday, with the bottom two rows complete. I have an idea for the printing events, not sure how to use them, or the surname.

please could someone explain the entry method for the double clues - similar to dylan i dont understand it.

eg i have 13dn, whose answers overlap by a single letter. therefore dont see how the entries overlap by two cells, whether the circled cell are part of these two cells, and what goes in the circled cell

Given its early, no problem if someone makes up an example to illustrate.

Andyp, it’s common sense. Imagine your two answers are TOP GEAR and GLOBE-TROT. There may be 9 spaces in the grid. The entry will be TOPGXTROT, and the cell X will contain the letters of EARLOBE. So two cells overlap.

Andyp, all overlaps include the circled cells, and each covers 2 cells. You may be misreading the overlap of 13d because of the common letter at the end of the first clue and beginning of the second.

Hi Dodgepot

Thanks for your attempt to explain, but I'm afraid it's not common sense to me at all. I thought, maybe, that any letters in the 5th and 6th rows would be muddled, so in your example, i'd be expecting TOPGXYROT.

I don't really understand what you mean by "two cells overlap"- surely cells themselves can't overlap?

Sorry if I"m being extra dim!

Sorry, dylan, common sense was not the right phrase. In each column only one of the two cells in rows 5 and 6 contains multiple letters. The other is a single letter common to both answers. Does that make more sense?