Cryptic 1630

[stevenj]

Hello. I can’t pretend I enjoyed this puzzle . Lots of weird clues and I nowhere near finished it before my bath time yesterday. Maybe I should have abandoned it but I didn’t and came back to it today. I have words to fill all spaces but maybe they’re wrong. But I’m leaving it .
My real purpose in writing was to mention a puzzle I did enjoy. It’s in Prospect and I have mentioned it before. There are 2 clues for every letter of the alphabet always. The difference this time was that, instead of each answer beginning with the letters, they ended with the letters which made solving the puzzle a bit harder but great fun. I really recommend it to you. And the magazine is good ( mummy has a subscription so we have every month) lots of interesting articles always.
steven

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Oh wow, I did this puzzle too! It was challenging but really satisfying to finish. I nearly gave up at one point because it wasn’t behaving, so I abandoned the bottom grid unfinished and started on the top one, hoping use the process of elimination, and it worked. I’m looking forward to the next issue’s puzzle.

[stevenj]

Glad you enjoyed it too. It’s funny but when I was assembling the answers I found the bottom Grid was going wrong so, like you, I concentrated on the top grid and it all fell into place.
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[cashier]

Times Jumbo was a stinker, steven. I didn't enjoy it either.

[stevenj]

Well, thank goodness you wrote that, cashier! I was beginning to feel that it was just me as nobody reacted. But it just was hopeless wasn’t it?
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