Solvers be aware the numbering is out for the last few clues both across & down & there are also a couple of misplaced bars to look out for - extra fun?!!
I've just noticed as well.
For 14d I have a three-letter answer, but no cross-checking letters yet. Is this one where the bar is wrong?
Do some of the clues show the wrong letter length, or is it always a case of the numbering being out?
Isn't there one name missing from the final grid? (I.e. the one who might be referencing a 70s "comedy".) Is this deliberate or have I missed something myself?
Belated thanks from me too Daniel. I've been out all day but took the grid with me. A serious puzzler I thought with all the "issues" but actually easy enough with a bit of critical thinking!
Thanks DJA ,
Once I'd sussed out the mistakes it was pretty easy this week ,however I'm stuck on one last little'un at 33a in the clues ( 34a) on the grid
Card opponents with date in cottage room (3)
Se?
shaneystar - that's where one of the mistakes is in the grid. This clue should start at the bottom of 7d i.e. with an "E" making it END (east & north for the card players + d(date) . It's there under defn of end in Chambers as a cottage room.
Have I missed something? If we're going back to number 1, or even to numbers 1-400 or so, there's a three letter solution that has to be there. Nor is another and in recent years better-known three-letter to be found, which has been similarly prolific. I haven't finished yet, but I can't see where they would go.