Good for you for your riposte to the wherewasi question. I always feel it's a bit much for people to seek help with this competition when there are only two questions involved and there is a holiday at stake. If you've entered yourself, then good luck with it!
Some people do spend quite a bit of time on the puzzle (have you looked at it today) even for just two questions - maybe even more time than on the MOS (83.5 hours is irrelevant, and the mos has longer to go).
Sometimes the clues are a bit vague - this week's geography is a case in point - the setter seems to wander all over the place. The Youth Hostel is fairly easy to find as is the place with the remote pub. But which hamlet is the setter wanting!
Sorry Wideboy. Can't agree. Asking for the last 2 or 3 solutions to a crossword you've spent an hour or so with is justified but not this. So you invest time and get nowhere. Boo hoo. Go off and try the following week. That's life. I wrestle with this sometimes and have to leave it. I don't trawl for the answers as statistically the people who give them are narrowing the odds of winning themselves.
I still think that's unethical with a HOLIDAY at stake.
Honestly Wideboy, I am not trying to convince you.
We can agree to differ.
BUT...if it was the MOS then you would need to be supplying fifty percent of the answers to be equal to even one hefty hint on wherewasi.
I agree though, I wouldn't WANT to win a camel trip.
I haven't even looked at this week's. I give it the go by more often than I attempt it.
Hope you are successful wideboy, even if the prize IS a curate's egg. Cheers.
I gave up buying the Times. We mostly finish MOS, S/Express and always YOU from knowledge in our heads. We certainly NEVER crib answers from AB. That's far too easy. We 'plug away'