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Hi everyone

We subscribers to RT only got our copies today, so only just started, and finished.

I agree 22 across was the usual horrific clue, but otherwise quite entertaining.
I particularly liked

24a Songs aim is to develop musical 4 6
3d Den harms Angie, tell off 6 8

And yes their is a spelling mistake in 11a the last word is soldier, not solder

PHILIP

PS anyone "seen" John from Aran recently. He started this RT blog with me, but just recently he has not been responding. Wonder whether he has won the lottery or his coop has closed

Hi Philip,

John has been notable by his absence and, come to think of it, Old Gal hasn't surfaced yet this week.

I know I appear on an irregular basis and have just come in after spending some twenty minutes or so with binoculars, tracking two buzzards circling across the sky. In days gone by, you wouldn't have found buzzards in Cheshire but they seem to be commonplace now.

Regards,

Caravaggio

Hi Dizzy, many thanks for that

Caravaggio - I'm here, I'm here!! Still read the remarks every week but sometimes don't post. Also - much to my shame, still haven't completed one. Am able to get on much better though with a little help from my friends.....

Hi Old Gal,

Nice to hear from you again. Come on, it's time you finished one! How about this one? We'll give you all the help you need.

Regards,

Caravaggio

Thanks! I have completed just over a quarter - like browsing over it thru the week. Appreciate the offer but really feel I want to do it myself - bit stiffnecked and stubborn, you know! Comes with age..... Should have called myself Victoria Meldrew!

Old Gal

A few helpful tips for the RT crossword. There are always anagrams relating to either tv shows or stars(for example 3d this week, think of old Eastender), and usually a word that is contained in the clue (for example 1d).
Look for these first and they then help with the rest
PHILIP

Well Old Gal,with your attitude it is Loobyloo you should have called.He would indeed be proud of you.
BW
TJ

Thanks Philip - I do usually manage to get the clues relating to shows or stars, its the ones like 6d and 2d i am stuck with but have only 7 more to go with is quite good for me. Am happy with that.

Old Gal

2d.. Think of a word that means Old Fashioned then take the T from Team and put it in a port (SAID) and you get STAID

6d is an anagram of "plan your" plus the intial "m" from make and the answer is to do with the lungs.

Hope that helps

PHILIP