Not only does the website not have this information, but you don’t even get the Toughie setter’s name there – we have to wait for the paper to be sure of that.

I have answered this before, but I will try again. For five days out of the seven the setter is almost always the same. For the other two days we rely on being told by the setters themselves, although we are able to recognise some of them by their style. Ray T, for example, uses almost invariably one-word answers and his clues have an absolute minimum of padding.

A good example of this is that several of us detected a significant change in the style of the Sunday puzzles, and a mistake made one Sunday revealed that not only had the setter changed, but Peter Biddlecombe identified him correctly. (See http://bigdave44.com/2009/06/21/st-2489-hints/ )

How do you know who sets the crosswords? Does it tell you on the website? I only ever use the paper version.

16d Very many expelled were downcast (8)
Very many is a large Roman numeral, and this is followed by a word meaning expelled, perhaps from a military aircraft, to get an adjective meaning downcast

This really was poor fare, i’m afraid.

For a very enjoyable challenge that will test you a little, try this….

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/11/17/gdn.cryptic.20091121.pdf

Today’s Guardian puzzle by the venerable Araucaria, who, at the age of 88 still knocks most setters into a cocked hat.

24a Lied about drink I included producing wild excitement (8)
Easy when you know how – an anagram (about) of LIED is followed by an alcoholic drink (for sailors?) around I (I included) to give a word meaning wild excitement

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