Fao - The K M Players

[seekeerz]

Morning folks - yet again there's a hold up at the Telegraph office, waiting to flick over to the 30/9 ...

Twix - if you happen to look in and could do a cut  and paste it would be much appreciated...thanks 

[twix123]

Hi Steff, it seems rather strange that the puzzle appears properly on my ipad 😀, but is still showing Friday's puzzles on my desktop 😕. I'll fire up my other tablet, which has a mouse and keyboard, and see what that shows up there as my fingers don't seem to operate properly on the ipad!

[seekeerz]

Crazy isn't it !!

[twix123]

All fired up and ready to go:

11a. Word, based on “chaos” and coined by Jan Baptista van Helmont, for a fundamental state of matter, such as the carbon dioxide identified by said chemist; or, in another sense, empty boastful talk or bluster (3)

23a. A hesperidium with aromatic zest and juicy segmented flesh; or, its corresponding colour, similar to apricot, carrot, ginger, papaya, peach, persimmon and saffron (6)

43a. A religious ceremony; a good turn; employment; a public utility; a set of crockery for a particular meal; the order of dishes; or, an act of assisting a customer or waiting on a diner (7)

53d. Crimson or rouge gem whose name has been adopted to describe similarly coloured things, such as blood, glass, port wine or the lips (4)

[Karamia]

Gas orange service ruby

[seekeerz]

Thanks twix, mine has just rolled over and looks like karamia has scooped the pool - well done 🙂

[Karamia]

Thank you!

[twix123]

Well done Karamia.

Funnily Steff, although both my desktop and tablet are running Windows 11 and Firefox, the tablet immediately showed the correct Telegraph puzzle, which I used to post the questions, when I returned to the desktop Saturday's puzzles miraculously appeared 😖

[seekeerz]

And as soon as you post the clues mine gets its act together- something spooky 👻 in the state of Denmark !!

Thanks again, now I can get myself organised 🤔