Great fun, thank you Serpent. We filled the lower half with little difficulty but had a struggle to complete the 'upper part'. Definitely one for the men this time. It was more difficult than last...
It took me a little while to spot what was needed in the top and bottom rows, but apart from that a reasonably straighforward offering from MynoT. I was lucky in getting the big word across the middle...
Am I really the first to have finished this interesting but relatively straightforward puzzle? Or have the this site's best solvers been dissuaded from posting for fear of being accused of showing...
I made heavy weather of this at first, and admired the way some of the misprints were quite deviously hidden. I was lucky in the end-game, spotting a likely anagram which turned out to be correct: I'm...
I thought things were going well until I ground to a halt in the top right corner -- even having the theme identified didn't help me much. Finally got there, though. I hadn't come across the poem...
Quite an appropriate puzzle given the weather we have been having this week ! Relieved that it didn't take too long to crack as we have the pleasure of another Schadenfreude puzzle to occupy us...
1 A. Mac's chimney-pot producing awful hum in necessary place (6,2 words) ???p?? I've been trying to work with 'lum' , chimney-pot, but have got nowhere. 18 A. 'Eighty' act rumly in cricket ground (7)...
The grid fill was not as hard as I had expected, as spotting the treatment of the holes was a great help. I'm sure I'll have mucked up the last step, however, as i'm in the "good walk ruined" camp....
This has got to be the most ambiguous preamble ever. Nice easy grid-fill, but ... Is the starting point "the completed grid" or what you get using the "information"? Is the starting point the zeroth...