there is an extra letter in the wordplay..
42a Want negotiable operation without German company (6) ...looks like EGENCY from crossers..
The "extra" was "N" ....how would the answer parse please?...
Another entertaining puzzle, with nice treatment of the thematic elements. Nothing too challenging, but the extra words were quite smoothly integrated into the clues. I must do some checking, to see...
An enjoyable solve. Early start as children suffered early wakefulness and it was ' my turn.' I had no idea where this was going until got right to the end and reordered clue letters. Usually have a...
RofL!! The two editors are pulling our whatnots here in this joyous romp! Setters beware - we now know what they want from us. Anyhow, great fun if something of a sprint from start to finish. Many...
Hello Evers, As soon as I saw this week's setter I rather sensed a rather loud sigh of resignation from Devadolly in the NW! However I found the clue-ing very fair and quite quickly populated the...
I enjoyed that (I had a slight sense of deja vu over the theme, but if I'm right I hope nobody will give the details until after the closing date). I did it in rather an odd order. With about half the...
Hi Is anybody is doing today EV and if so are you having similar difficulties to me. I can't reconcile the two top north western thematic entries and also 35d and 40a don't seem to fit together. Would...
Interesting theme and a clever construction to get the clashes to come out as they did. Confirming the 6th place took a while!
It's snowing today! What the heck? It was 75 degrees yesterday....
Hello EVers I enjoyed this weeks offering from Gaston. I did manage to spy the theme early on in the solve. As with previous EVs, I am reluctant to erase a carefully deduced or solved light. If my...
A huge amount going on, but a relatively gentle solve despite that. I found some of the clues fairly generous, so was able to work out one of the replacements and then work backwards from there to...
Nice gentle cluing from eXternal - first Listener I think. This will be a good starter for new or newish solvers but shouldn't detain the regulars for too long. All definitions sorted, just a bit of...
Hello EVers, A far less demanding EV this week. Three of the clashes appeared quite quickly. which lead to the obvious positioning of the other four. I felt there were more than enough hints in clues...
