First post on a Tuesday? A cracking puzzle I thought. The toughest for a while and not an easy theme for our non uk solvers to find out about I suspect. Getting the 2 long entries is the key but that...
A straightforward grid fill and an interesting endgame - no grid staring for once! Not sure about 1d but otherwise all done if I have understood it correctly!
Anyone else done this yet - fairly straightforward but I can only see 5 of the 6 links - wondered if there was an error in column 10 as 3 of 4 letters that would be correct are there.
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Although I have finished I am puzzled by 12a is it a 5th member of one of the sets or normal - if so I cannot see the wordplay. Apologies - this will seem gibberish if you are not doing this...
Surprised no-one has already posted, lots to keep track of here with extra words and phrases and plenty thematic entries. I enjoyed it.
Is it me or are EV's getting tougher in recent weeks?...
30 Wines:regardless of temperature brute quaffs French one. (7) ?EA?NE?
21 Sterility exhibited by X's successor, entering stormy seas. (7) A?E??SS
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All finished BUT my worry is that there does not seem to me to be a unique path to highlight - several possibilities for A's and E's - does anyone agree or disagree?
Live artist dispenses with one around picture's finishing touch? (6) I have S?TTER so SITTER or SETTER? I have had the wordplay explained on AB as anag of artist less a and with e added (finishing...