Many thanks Vetuste - I get the 'FACE' the 'I' and the 'AT' - where does the 'LIT' come into the equation? No worries, we have finished it and have opened the bar. Have a great 2019 :)
We are with you wolfram, we finished at about 2.15 am. Hardest for ages. Yawn, 26 a puzzled us too. He is finishing due to illness we hear, 20th January is his last puzzle. We were trying to remember when he started, Spring 2016 we thought? Sad moment when a setter retires