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The Inquisitor looks more of a challenge.

The setter might have found a place to squeeze in PERON (No traveller returns). But it wasn't to be...however, it was a welcome escape from the monotonous diet of children's literature.
An interesting interview at lunch on TMS.

My quickest solve to date. I have just discovered that membership of the Times Crossword Club gives access to historic puzzles so I have started doing some from the beginning of last year. They seem much harder than the current fare.

Agree with Mersault - this was a welcome and gentle stroll especially after last week where I got stuck right at the beginning by thinking that the station for Glyndebourne was Glynde (which I have used) and not Lewes!

I too now have 18 letters now that I have stopped being stupid, pays not to rush things.

I have a full grid and seventeen letter. However the eighteenth could be in one of toe directions. Are others facing the same dilemma (!) ? any advice appreciated. Thanks

The eighteenth can go in only one position - and it's probably not the two you've got! If you draw what's created by highlighting the 17, you should see where the 18th has to be. Does this work?(!)

Yes indeed. Thanks Malone

I don't agree with Meursault that there has been a monotonous diet of children's literature. Three out of thirty puzzles this year have been based on children's literature, hardly an excessive number. In any case, what is surely important is not the source, but what the setter does with it. Occasionally the source itself is sufficiently interesting or unfamiliar to be worth researching, but that is a bonus.

In this case I didn't find the treatment of a very familiar and obvious quotation to be particularly interesting, especially as it was inexplicably edited. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing out of the ordinary either. The treatment of a Lear poem three weeks ago was a far more accomplished achievement, and, in my view, rather more engaging.

Very quick finish. Only query is that I cannot get the wordplay to 3d.
I was looking forward to watching the cricket after I finished this puzzle yesterday. I saw 2 balls, then rain. I rarely get a chance to watch cricket. Typical! It may be my imagination, but it seems these puzzles are hard when the weather's good, and easy when it's bad.