1A: One illuminating aspect of Sala (8): -a-light. Anybody worked out which of the two (apparently equal) options to pick? Am I missing something? Unfortunate if a TLS should end up as a pinsticking...
To save RR the bother, I will start the thread this week. I haven't finished yet, but with a full and fairly easy grid fill, that just leaves the usual preamble and whatever potential disaster is...
13A Arab "freshman" in lawsuit periodically before term's end. (5) N-S-M. Looks like NASIM (Arab name meaning "fragrant air") but if so, I don't get the NASI bit.
Fairly straightforward debut by Ragtag this week. The basics of the theme we have seen in a listener a couple of years back as well as in the EV. I was wondering what the clashes had to do with it,...
Seems harder than usual this week. Struggled through to last one: 23A: Stage king free of inner character (7) A-C-A-D. By the way - 3 Down is a (5,4) not a (4,5) as printed.
last one-help and explanation please
4d shavian prodigy who preferred solitary contemplation of mathematics5 C?L?E chloe?only other word that comes up is calve!...
Wrong puzzle posted on Crossword Club today - next week's 2608 by Mike Laws - although the posting instructions refer to Mephisto 2607 by Paul McKenna. After last week's vanishing 2606, they really...
Could the Times web team either a) learn how to use cron files or b) replace "Mephisto Latest crossword and solution: live after 2100 Saturday" with " Mephisto Latest crossword and...
9A: Split up part of guitar (4). The answer is clearly FRET - but what does this have to do with Splitting, or Splitting Up? Is it intended to be an "&Lit"? If so, it's extremely obtuse...
15D Don't waste time worrying about this as a "6,3". It's a "9". TLS seems particularly capricious in this area. (e.g. last week's DRTHORNE (7)) 19D Charles Johnson's pseudonomous...