The early posting of this week's clueless had me a little concerned in case the thread got "buried" in the morning traffic , no need to worry because ChrisE set the early pace with a corker - only to equalled soon after by teff7 .
I must say the standard was excellent throughout - great subtractives from bobsmum , stevezodiac and ginge ; crafty wordplay from rambler , busby , paul and therogue . Ixion's reference to ab was only marred by the ab-sense of the man himself .
mrw , harbinger and redelf just made my task even harder .
In the end it came down to Aristo's 15 and fieryjack's clever 25 .
I'm going for Aristophanes @15
Muscles stretch and separate
Well done and thanks to everyone for playing .
Sorry if I missed anyone out -here's the prize
http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2012/oct/04/top-10-crosswords-fiction-simpsons