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Yes, very clever. Wish I'd read the destructions a bit more carefully! Thursday's Spectator is the next challenge!

Hello Clevertask - It seems to me that the instructions never make much sense until you've actually got a few answers, and come to know the puzzle, as it were.

Yes, AJT, you're quite right, I just get a bit frustrated at my own stupidity! Bit like those exams years ago where you didn't read the question properly!

Hi all.

Re 20d - 'link' - 24ac - 'link' - 21d
The preamble states:
Their (ie the 6-letter solutions to go in the grid) clues refer partly to their own solution and partly to either neighbouring (concealed) link. Nb 'either' neighbouring link.
So I thought that the clues for 20d & 24ac both referred to the same 'link' - one 'forward'/ one 'backward' as it were.
'Give up work' & 'depart' can both define this 'link' word. This would mean the 'link' between 24ac & 21d is not referred to in a clue. Seems odd that this is the only one but I reckon the surface readings of:
'Give up work search' & 'Depart in peace' were too good to miss.

It isn't an exception - I explained it in an earlier post. Each of the 6-lettered clues has perfect symmetry with a clue to both inserted and concealed words, and of course the front/back half of one is found in the other. There is no actual need to link to other clues except in forming the chain.

Hi JS - Clevertasks explanation seems to me to clear up the anomaly nicely

I've managed to finish it all, except for 5A and 22A, both of which I think I have solved. However, the first ends L-S and the second begins S-R.

The only possible ends to the chain I have (presumably this is not a circle) are the above two and 2D, which I have solved, ending -O-.

Unless it's a chained circle, there must be an undivided word at each end, surely?

Forget it. I've just worked out what Jane's school is, and it all falls into place.

Thanks.

The preamble makes it clear is is an endless chain ie travel/mantra