What's up with the FT site this morning? The Polymath comes up as source code and the regular cryptic has no numbers in the grid (but only numbers in place of letters in the previous solutions)!
I have filled both grids apart from 5d ("Last light in in background for tabloid performed by force of habit could be a cinch" 7,3; 10) For Grid A I have ?E?H?N?/C?L For Grid B I have ?E?T?N?S?N....
Puzzled by the special instructions. "Four perimeter solutions too large for the space available must be entered partly with unclued 11 and clued 26. Their clues are to part of the full...
Last one: 13 ac Flexible plastic packaging material. I have P?L?T?S?E...... but I've never wrapped anything in "politesse" - apart from my irresistible charm, of course ;-)