Observer xword

[elderly]

Has anyone got anywhere with Sunday x-word Azed no.1741
I'm really struggling.

[Marsh]

Hint:  There's a big anniversary coming up this month.

[Marsh]

Hi, elderly

This may be too late� you may have thrown the paper away by now � but I felt I shouldn't publish answers in an open form until the deadline for the cluing competition had passed.

11 is HOEDMEN
12 is NONAGEONARY
19 is DSOYA
35 is NURESERYMAIDV

I hope I'm not teaching a grandparent to suck eggs but I find that in this sort of puzzle it helps to take a separate piece of paper and write out all the clue numbers in order with dashes underneath. As I get them I fill in letters.  It is then easy to try out phrases that suggest themselves against the letters I have.  It also makes it easier, when I have the phrases, to find the letters I have to add to the clues not yet solved.

1  7  41  2  4  6  8  10
G _   _   D L  _  _   K

I hope I've given enough for you to solve it from here � it really is a lovely puzzle and not that difficult once the penny drops (but a real bother until it does!)

[Marsh]

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