DT 30226

128 comments on “DT 30226”

1. I loved this, very clever and cryptic but it’s all there in the wordplay if you can unravel the misdirection.
   My podium is positively groaning under the weight of contenders but I’ll mention 4,11&14a plus 8&22d. Great stuff
   Many thanks indeed to Zandio and Mr K.

   I’ll get back to grouting the bathroom tiles, an activity with about the same pleasure rating as a visit to the dentist.

2. If Mr K found this chewy, it’s fair to say that I found it rather indigestible and couldn’t make any headway with a single clue. So not so much a DNFVas a aDid Not Start. Zandio (?) Is to be congratulated for a stiff challenge, whi h eas, unfortunately, way above my pay grade. Thanks to Mr K for the hints, which I shall now read. I liked the cats

   1. Agreed . Also having problems with the comments proforma !!

   2. Chriscross I couldn’t agree with you more. I have read and re-read the clues umpteen times and only managed 18d! For a change I will read the comments first and then read the hints which I am sure Mr K has had to work extra hard on, on our behalf.

3. As SL says some great misdirection here in this ***/**** Friday puzzle. I don’t recall seeing the homophone indicator in 25a before but I expect it has been. 11a and 6&22d were all excellent the latter being my favourite. Thanks Mr K for your always great feline 22d’s and to the setter.

   1. I don’t understand how it does indicate a homophone?

      1. The homophone indicator is “lecturer’s” i.e. as a lecturer would pronounce it.

         1. No, still baffled!

            1. A lecturer talks/speaks and might say/pronounce ticks over/idles as the answer. So the answer is a homophone of a synonym of “ticks over”.

4. Excellent puzzle, good surfaces, misdirections, novel and brilliant constructions.
   Slow but steady progress to an unaided finish, spelling checks apart, in a solid 4* time.
   Many smiles eg 14a and 1d
   Last in and longest solve, 27a.
   Many thanks, Zandio and Mr K.

5. By the way Mr K, isn’t the work (and the theatre) in 22d medical rather than “artistic”?

   1. Both theatres and both kinds of work are possible, it seems to me: an operation and an opus. How clever is that?

      1. I’ve never seen “op” for opus Robert but I’m not saying you’re (or our blogger) is wrong….just my curious mind.

         1. “Piano Trios, Op. 1 (Beethoven)”

            1. Yes – but I don’t think that would be a work in a stage theatre, but it is in a surgical theatre.

               1. At the risk of sounding like a needle stuck in the groove, I feel compelled to say that literary works are performed on a stage in a theatre. Ergo, a work in a theatre: still works for me.

      2. Very clever indeed

6. It would be very difficult to come up with a descriptive term better, or should it be worse, than Mr K’s ‘chewy and tough’ for this anything but a back pager on any day of the week – ****/**

   No stand out favourite, but 11a and 16d raised weak smiles.

   Thanks to Zandio, for it must be he, and thanks to Mr K for a 5* effort in solving and parsing.

7. The toughest for me in a long while. Got there eventually although needed a couple of breaks. 6d my loi. As noted already really far too many were great clues but I’ll pick out 14a which made me smile.
   Many thanks to the setter and Mr K.
   Spring is definitely in the air. I identified goldfinches, chaffinches, blue tits, coal tits, blackbirds, sparrows, collared doves and one each of dunnock and blackcap in my garden at the same time this morning.

   1. The only thing that makes washing up fun is watching the birds. (Yes, I know, I ought to use the wishdosher.

8. Wow, what a struggle! Three passes before starting a thing. But then a slow slog. Perhaps a bit too tough for me to fully enjoy but very happy to finish it.

9. I found this quite a tussle with few freebies. Still, it was satisfying to solve albeit well into *** time for me. I hadn’t heard of 1a which I took a while to get from the wordplay and I’m much more familiar with Jarvis than Joe, luckily the wordplay was friendly for 14a… I really liked 1d, which I thought very clever, and 22d was great misdirection but my COTD goes to 11a which I thought was constructed excellently and gave me a big smile when I got it. There were plenty of good candidates today. ***/****

   TY to Zandio (?) and MrK

10. This was as tricky as a back-pager is likely to get, which is as it should be for a Friday. Thanks to the setter for a very enjoyable puzzle and to Mr K.
    I ticked 25a, 5d and 9d (which made me smile) but my runaway favourite is 1d.

11. Well, well, well this was a challenge. In bed with my cuppa managed just 5, all in the NE. The top fell first and then slowly it began to take shape. It helped that I can ask my device if I am correct but it doesn’t give me the answer. On several occasions I had the right answer but couldn’t see why – thank goodness we have Mr K to fill in the parsings.

12. 4*/3.5*. Yes, this was certainly challenging but a lot of fun despite a few unconvincing surfaces along the way.

    25a was my last one in, with two possibilities for the answer from the definition and checkers until the parsing finally dawned on me.

    With a combination of rabbits and cricket, what else could I pick but 1d as my favourite?

    Many thanks to the setter and to Mr K.

13. Poor fodder in my view . 17a , 24a , 5d ,9d , and 22d just don’t parse properly . Very often , the reason for a crossword being difficult , is that the clues are not that good , leading to frustration and a lack of enjoyment , as was the case , for me at least , here . Lets hope the Friday Toughie puts me back in a better mood !

    1. Simon, knowing this setter as I do, I can assure you he is an absolute stickler for everything parsing correctly. I can’t see anything wrong with the clues you mention, you may think they are poor clues, that’s subjective but they all work cryptically.

       1. Agreed! All those clues are perfectly fine.

14. So just not me then. Really tough, but fairly clued throughout with a couple of obscure surfaces that lengthened the time taken to solve and fully parse the results. Being a cricket nut, 1d has to be my runaway favourite.

    Thanks to Zandio for this most challenging of back-pagers, and to Mr K for a typically comprehensive blog.

15. As we say here Down South, Great Goobyooba! What a brilliant, all-day (*****) banquet this turned out to be. Such a feast of wit, misdirection, GK, and desserts a-plenty. Shall I list them all right here? No, I’d fill this little box with overflowing, so I’ll just settle for one podium instead of four: 14a, 22d (two different theatres are possible here), & 9d. And a Clarkie to 16d making me laugh. Thanks to Mr K and Zandio apparently, *****/***** [a first for me: 5/5]

16. I have to agree. It strikes me as overly obscure in many cases. No point me attempting it.

17. Way beyond my capabilities, I’m afraid.

    Thanks to the setter and Mr K for the hints which I will look at for the pusskits because I have given up on the puzzle.

18. Agreed. Hi

19. Bizarre! I found this the easiest puzzle of the week. Got straight on to the setters wavelength. Lots of clever elegant clues but my fav was 1d which I thought was brilliant. Needed the hints to fully parse my answer to 25a.
    Thanks to the setter for a very enjoyable puzzle and for the hints.
    **/*****

    1. Brian! I really struggled. I thought you would have panned this one.

    2. Without a doubt, Brian, you win what in my book would be top prize for “most unexpected comment of the day, month, or possibly year” – you’ve certainly given me the broadest smile I’ve worn all day, thank you!

    3. Who are you and what have you done with Brian?

       1. My thoughts exactly!

       2. On balance I was pleased to have a puzzle that gave me more than a challenge than many often do – but today as far as I was concerned was simply the wrong day for it, as I had quite a lot I wanted to accomplish first. Like wanting to continue a decent Wordle run, I hate to miss any day’s cryptic crossword puzzle, so finish the solve I eventually did after several visits to my paper. Its fair to say though that I found the puns in the quick crossword far more amusing than I did most of the clues and answers in this back pager, although I have to admit to liking the four fourteen letter clues, with my top award going to 14a. The one thing that has totally floored me is reading how easy Brian has found this one after how difficult he found last Monday’s Campbell offering which I thought to be so very straightforward – ah well, one man’s meat . . . . . etc, lol. Thank you Zandio for this head scratcher and thank you Mr K as well for some very much needed parsings.

20. Horrible!!! I don’t mind being challenged but this was ridiculous.

    It’s like setting a quiz where the all of the questions are impossible to answer. What’s the point!! A couple of helpers to put in some checks might have given hope, but a blank grid after three passes is not good. It was only this entertaining blog that stopped me putting the print out in the bin unblemished by any writing, so that I could learn a couple of new tricks. Thank you for that, Mr K.

    *********/-

    1. You’ve used your full name rather than your previous alias which sent your comment into moderation. Both will work from now on.

21. Very enjoyable, but it’s a good job I don’t challenge myself timewise. Managed almost unaided but had to use electronic help with 2d. I knew I was looking for a partial anagram but the answer was a completely new word for me. Lots of brilliant clues but I especially liked 4a, 11a, 15d and my runaway favourite 1d. Thanks to Zandio for the absolute pleasure and Mr K, whose help with parsing was much needed this morning (and the cat pics of course!)

22. That was a long struggle and I still feel a sense of achievement on completing it despite having to cheat by resorting to Google. Also needed hints to explain 25a and 19d despite having the correct answers.

    Favourites 1d, 15d and 22d.

    Will now brave the tail end of the gales to walk the dog who has not been showing any enthusiasm to go out up to now.

23. This setter’s work falls into marmite territory for me – one has to look well beyond the strange surface reads to derive any pleasure from the wordplay. Feels a bit like ‘half a job’ as a result but I appreciate others don’t see it that way.
    Top three for me today were 1d followed by 14a (love that gravelly voice) & 9d.

    Thanks to Zandio and to Mr K and his feline companions.

24. Thank you all, that made my head hurt!

25. Struggled and gave up. Many more like this and I won’t bother to buy the DT on a Friday.

    1. Me neither

    2. well said. dreadful. not enjoyable at all

    3. I agree. Too hard and no fun at all!

26. Must admit I struggled today, yes the wordplay was fair but just couldn’t get on the same page as the setter. 1 nil to Zandio? I’ll now go and have a lie down in a dark room!

    4*/3*

    Fav 1d & LOI 18d

    Thanks to setter & Mr K

27. A tough one that. Held up for a while in the south west. I enjoyed it immensely. Very satisfying to solve such a devious but fair set of clues. 1d was my clear favourite.

28. A full grid, and correct, or so I thought, but then discovered from the hints that my last one in at 27A was incorrect. And here I was thinking meshed (me-shed) was a good answer! Definitely needed the hints to parse a couple more as well. A bit of a slog, but happy to get as far as I did. Thanks to the setter and Mr. K.

29. Having seen the comments above I can now see that I should not be disappointed to be struggling to make any headway. I plan to persist a bit longer before peeping at the hints!

30. That was really tough in places, but what a great puzzle! Not having recognised the homophone indicator in 25a I came up with a bizarre construction to justify the answer. I dos surrounding a single letter for lecturers. Never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to find an tortured explanation of things when something much easier is available if one can just see it!

31. Hello, compiler here. Thanks very much for taking the trouble to solve, analyse and discuss. Have a great weekend.

    1. Oh you naughty man. You pushed me to the limit today. You are awful – but I like you!

       1. Shut that door!

    2. By the way, in case Mr K’s use of “whimsical” in 1d and 16d might be taken to mean “made up”, those definitions are in Chambers. Really excellent analysis, I thought, for which many thanks.

       1. Hi, Zandio. Thanks for that info and for the kind words about the blog. Must remember to check the BRB before writing “whimsical”.

          Thanks for a fun and challenging puzzle to solve and to hint.

          1. Hi again, Mr K.
             One thing surprised me: I had expected 9d to be the favourite. Maybe people have forgotten that our king used to talk to plants. (Or it’s not as funny as I thought!)
             All the best.

32. Cor blimey mate. That was a struggle. 1d was brilliant and 15&16&18d. But I was stumped by about half of the clues and had to use Mr K. 14a I liked also, have seen him often, great entertainer. My excuse for not sparking on all cylinders today was a really sleepless night, I was doing yesterdays toughie at 4pm. Thanks to Messrs Setter & Hinter and the cats.

33. Wow – Friday is definitely the new Thursday and some for the backpager cryptic crossword. Found this tough but enjoyable – needed the hints (thanks Mr K) to complete the south east. I’m hoping Mitrovic will take inspiration from 1d but 5d edged it for my COTD. Thanks to Zandio for making my head hurt.

34. A cracking puzzle from Z! Great clues, a tough challenge and a very enjoyable tussle with a real sense of acheivement/victory at the end. Just what I want from a Friday back-pager – in fact, I’d be happy with one like this every day of the week. I have ticked a few and will mention 1d and 9d. 4.5*/4.5*.

    1. You do get one every day of the week, it’s called The Toughie.

       1. 😏

       2. Exactly. While we lesser mortals get left with nothing.

          1. I did a quick check and I notice that he doesn’t comment on the Toughie, maybe he doesn’t do them? He should do that first and then the backpager.

             1. I do tackle some of the DT Toughies, Merusa, but I’m not a very swift solver and I never finish them on the same day so don’t comment. In fact, I usually cut them out of the paper and save them and often don’t get round to finishing them till weeks later. I prefer a good, tough back-pager to get my teeth into – like this one!

35. Cracking, and for me the hardest backpager for a long time and I do like Mr K’s description of it being somewhere between chewy and tough – much as I found last evening’s otherwise delicious stuffed breast of Jacob hoggett. At least there was no ‘innominate bone” to be seen either in the crossword or meal (unlike in a Times puzzle this week, where it stumped me), for which grateful mercies.

    A 14a having been in our pack until a couple of years ago I really should have tumbled to it more swiftly, but as with so many of these very clever but scrupulousy fair clues, it took some time to tease apart. Almost all parsed, with many smiles throughout. 8d my COTD.

    4* / 4*

    Many thanks to Zandio and to Mr K

36. Just printed this off, and then saw the **** rating. I will never understand why a very difficult puzzle is posted when there is already a Toughie on offer. Having said that I will give it my best shot in the hope that I might be on wavelength. But seems like not something that would encourage new solvers.

    1. Well my best shot wasn’t good enough, I did get 6 answers at first pass, but only added 2 more at the second. My hat is off to Mr K for being able to solve all of this puzzle that clearly should have been in the Toughie slot.

       1. You did better than I, BL. After the first pass I had precisely one. I think Mr. Lancaster was having a laugh. 😀

37. I wonder what proportion of those who tried today’s puzzle really enjoyed the experience?

    1. I’m guessing nor many … I think some are for show.

    2. I can honestly say I didn’t.

38. Can’t admit to enjoying this rather hard slog this morning, although I did smile with 1d. I’ve never heard of 2d until I looked it up, it was the only thing that made sense with the clue.
    Five of the answers I only got because the online version told me I was ok, I just couldn’t work out their make up. Will now read the hints and hopefully learn the rationale, I never like to view the hints until finished. All in all, felt like a tough Toughie to me, sorry!

39. So glad others found this difficult. Not as stupid as I thought I was. Are these getting more ‘chewy’ of late as I am sure I have had more success in the past and sometimes finished one or is ‘old timers’ catching up with me ?

    1. Welcome to the site, Jasper’s mummy.

       As Gazza says up above, this puzzle lies very near the toughest end of the back-pager spectrum.

    2. Is Jasper a boy or a dog? 🫢

    3. Welcome, Jasper’s mummy! Great to have you on board!
       I am as curious as Daisygirl, though. Is Jasper a dog, a boy, a cat, a tarantula, a horse, a donkey or something else nobody has ever heard of? 🤣🤣
       Please comment again.

40. Great puzzle but not a back pager in my book, pretty close to an obscure Friday toughie by Mr Enigma or The Deadly Mr O. As others, I thought 1d a cracker of a clue.
    Thanks for the tussle Zandio (and for owning-up) plus Mr K for the hints.
    PS has our old friend Brian been puzzled into commenting on the wrong day?

    1. I have a feeling Brother Brian is being sarcastic. 😏

       1. The same thought crossed my mind!

       2. On reflection, I was thinking along the same lines.

41. Hehehe! I’ve solved one clue, and even then didn’t know why, natch a crickety clue 1d. No way am I going to spend my time trying to solve something as nebulous as this. Thank you Mr. K for my kitty cats, what would we do without them.

42. Yikes this was tough and I agree with Mr K’s description … ‘chewy and tough’ for this back pager … more like a toughie.

    4.5*/3* for me today

    Several new words for me in 1a & 2d … not in my vocabulary.

    Favourites include 4a, 10a, 17a, 24a, 1d & 8d with winner by a country mile — 1d!

    Found much of the parsing hard and difficult to fathom my bung ins until I read the hints … thank you Mr K for elucidating so many.

    Thanks to Zandio (for the hard scratching and supreme challenge today), and to Mr K

43. Could not have finished without hints. Thought the puns on small crossword brilliant

    1. Welcome to the blog, Nigelm.

    2. Hi Nigelm, new blood galore today, welcome!

    3. Welcome, Nigelm! It is great to see new commenters and I hope we hear your thoughts again. 👍

44. Quickie puns were excellent, as for the cryptic…….hmmmmmm! Best not say really but I guess in the great scheme of things the odd unfathomable crossword is ok?
    Thanks to Mr K for the hints and tips, I’ll have a look through now.

45. So pleased to read other comments. After three reads and no answers went to do something more productive. Result: nil. Enjoyment: nil

46. Not commentated for a while but felt the need to with this offering. Started slowly picked up speed as grid started to fill. Finished in just over ** time. However quite a lot were either, parsed afterwards or not parsed at all. However I wasted no time in trying to work out some of the more convoluted clues. In addition there were some (for me)obscure synonyms. Thanks for the commentary, very useful.
    Enjoyment factor was about average.

47. Chewy. You ain’t kidding Mr K. Tempted to say it was like trying to chew on gristle but don’t think that would be fair so let’s say half a pound of Thornton’s treacle toffee. By a margin the longest I’ve spent on a back-page puzzle for some time & can’t even claim an unaided finish as new to me 2d took two stabs at arranging the fodder correctly having initially transposed the I&U. Only Joe yielded on the first pass & seriously doubted I’d get by without a little help from my friends so there was a certain satisfaction at completing eventually. Wasn’t keen on the homophone indicator at 25a but no complaints elsewhere. 1d my clear pick.
    Thanks to Zandio & Mr K whose full review I’ll now read.

48. Too hard and certainly no fun to be had. I have thrown in the towel but am reassured to find I am not alone in my disaffection. Grateful to turn to the Quickie with its two crafty puns. Sort of thank you Zandio and MrK who has filled in my numerous gaps. 👎.

49. I haven’t looked at the puzzle yet and, having glanced through the comments, I’m not sure that I can face it. Brian is the only person who makes me think it might be worth a shot.
    I was just wondering if anyone has heard from Kath lately – she doesn’t seem to have appeared for the last few days – perhaps she said she was going to be away, though. Hope she’s OK.

    1. She’s recently got a new grandson so I’d imagine she’s too busy for crosswords

       1. Thanks, CS – that’s good news.

50. I persisted at this and had 5 which I did not complete until I looked at the hints. For a puzzle this challenging I am pleased with my effort, I enjoyed the challenge and have learnt some new words along the way.

    Many thanks to Mr K for the much needed hints, and to Zandia for the very fine challenge.

51. I am going to lie down in a dark room. I may sob.

52. I do the cryptic every day but have not previously been moved to comment. I only do so today because I finished it unaided when it was deemed to be very difficult. Big head! Id took me a while but loved it when it clicked and it took me a long time to work out why 25a was correct. Not seen “lecturer’s” before, I don’t think. Thanks, Zandio.

    1. Welcome to the blog, Kaymar.

    2. Hi Kaymar, new blood always welcome!

    3. Great to have you on board, Kaymar. Please don’t be a stranger now you have delurked. As Waldorf said – new blood with new ideas always welcome.

53. Only two solutions from me without help (13a and 17a). Too hard to be fun for me.

    1. Welcome to the blog, Manx Seadog.

    2. Hi Manx Seadog, lots of new blood today, welcome to the quarterdeck!

    3. Welcome, Manx Seadog! After three passes I still only had one solved. This had escaped from the Toughie page. Hope to hear from you again. 👍

54. This was impossible!
    The only redeeming feature was the correct terminology for 17a, My son, a steam enthusiast, objects violently when the American “train station” is used.

55. Great puzzle. Very satisfying to parse and complete. Thanks to setter and blogger.

56. Never in a month of Sunday’s but thanks to Mr K a big learning curve.Hope I can retain all I’ve tried to take in and one day……

    1. Narcism (3,4) tomorrow, fingers and other things crossed.

57. Got two thirds along and threw in the towel. Didn’t help that spokesman got put in wrongly. I would never have got 25a and any of the others without sacrificing gardening,cooking, washing and probably breathing. I d was sweet though. Always read what Brian has to say and was flabbergasted.

58. Good evening
    Poor show today! Despite having a day off and, at least in theory, plenty of time, I could only manage 13 solutions before throwing in the sponge. I notice that it wasn’t only me! Ee wey, tomorrow is another day!

59. PS. Thank you, Mr. K for the fabulous Joe Cocker and his perfect air guitar. 🎸

60. No comments on the puzzle because there would be too many asterisks. Only comment is that the Joe of the 60s is Joe Brown. Joe Cocker burst onto the scene in 1969 and was more of a 70s highlight.

    Other than that my memory of 30226 is of a suffocating sense of darkness.

61. Way too convoluted for my liking – just didn’t enjoy it and in fact I gave up and did the Sudoku instead!

62. Brain really tied in knots here. Thanks to the genius of Zandio and the complementary genius of Mr K’s explanations. My first pass scored three answers, two of which were lurkers and had to be right and speculative oracles but then some brave bunging in nearly finished. Would have slept on it but am on babysitting duty for 4 grandsons this weekend- aged 12 to 2, so need my sleep!
    Thanks again for the challenge.

63. Did this this morning early, but subsequently engaged with penultimate day of grandsons’ visit. I thought it was fine. Finished much quicker than some other back pages. Only left flummoxed by 5d. Eventually got the first word but wasn’t sure. Could not think of the second word. Resorted to the hint. Many favourites 11 and 14a and 3 7 15 20 and 22d. Not the first time I’ve been on Zandio’s wavelength but definitely the first time I’ve been on Brian’s. Thanks Zandio and Mr K.

64. So tricky that it took 24 hrs to try and do and still needed five hints! I thought this was brilliant thank you Zandio and MrK

65. What a waste of time. I managed to solve four clues unaided and then gave up. When will our esteemed editor realise that we do not want toughies where a backpager should be. My daily crossword should be a pleasant time to look forward to, not hard labour with no end in sight. Thanks to setter, its not his fault that his puzzle was put in the wrong place, and to Mr. K who had to work very hard, and I have to admit that some of the time I did not even understand some of his hints. By the way,has Brian had a brain transplant?

66. A very mixed reaction to this puzzle, I’m in the couldn’t even start, got one answer ,stared at the rest for ages, looked at the first few hints and decided life is too short for me to continue with this. But I appreciate the effort put into it and the hints ,so thanks to all.

67. Almost completed during the night. Only left with 1a & 3d because I had “relapse” in for 12a. Amazed to see **** as difficulty, but reading all the comments, like my namesake (yes I am another Brian) it’s obviously a case of mindset + horses for courses, as I have never got anywhere near finishing a **** , but you know what they say about a monkey eventually writing the bible if it tried for long enough!
    Thanks to all. Loved cat pictures. Our cat got under the floorboards during plumbing work one day. Had to tempt her out with dish of best salmon!

68. Woah, that took a while — as evidenced by my only just completing it, a day later. Often I don’t get round to starting a puzzle till the following day, but this one I began on the train into work yesterday afternoon.

    (It was supposed to be the morning, but objects kept getting blown on to the tracks and the overhead wires, meaning my 14-minute commute to the office ended up departing 4½ hours late, which feels like some kind of record delay as a multiple of the journey time. Hope everybody else survived OK in the winds yesterday.)

    Anyway, thank you to Zandio. This felt more like one of your Sunday Toughies. In fact, I found it harder than your most recent Toughie; I need to go back to Thursday and put a comment on Sloop John Bee’s review of that. 10a ended up being my favourite, for the sheer simplicity of it which eluded me for so long till the penny finally dropped. Until then, 14a was my candidate for the top spot, and as I type this I hear my music software on shuffle has appropriately served up Joe singing ‘Have a Little Faith in Me’.

    And thank you to Mr K. I needed you to explain what “lecturer’s” was doing in 25a (after fruitlessly trying to cram “don” into the answer), and the PM in 11a (I’d failed to spot the literal “or”, so had Major as the PM and was — for obvious reasons — struggling to find any wordplay which switched the J to a Y).

    Cheers to anybody still reading this. And if you’re here because you’ve only just finished as well, do leave a comment!

69. I originally put icons for 25a, I couldn’t parse it but neither could I parse idols. Last one in was 5d and only after looking at the hints for it. I must add this site has been a great boost to my solving enjoyment. Thanks to Zandio and hinter

    1. Welcome to the blog, Another Brian.
       Now that you’ve introduced yourself I hope that you’ll become a regular commenter.

70. 5*/2*…..
    liked 8D “Pressure lover not to take motorway at first (6)”

71. A great challenge from Zandio. I could have driven to Budapest and back in the time this took me ! (And I live in East London, not Bratislava) !
    However, I did complete it, albeit with a couple of “that’ll do” answers, which were correct thankfully.
    Has to be *****/***.

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