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Hello, Elle!
Just home!
We had a nice time.
Beautiful day here!
I think there may have been someone "new" setting out the papers and thought Times2 was a different paper.
I'll pay more attention next week!
Finished the puzzle.
A good one today!
Going to watch the racing at Ascot.
Some top class horses racing today!

Hi, Rusty!
I am glad that you enjoyed yourselves.
Did Miss La Bamba go with you?
Yes, it wasn't too bad a puzzle today...... I have just three left to parse more fully.
It is too soon to ask you for help though - I shall persevere (off and on) for a while yet........
A light bulb may shine!!
How did you like the two golf clues? 16a and 17d?
I thought they were very good - I was pleased with myself for getting them!
I've also done the Jumbo GK
I learned something new there... the title of a book by Samuel Butler.....
The strange thing is that once I unearthed the title - "Erewhon" - it rang a bell?
Are you betting on any of the horses at Ascot?

Hello, Elle!
Yes, La Bamba was there!
Two fine golf clues, I thought.
I have 3d to parse, still!
Plenty time, though.
Racing is very good at Ascot.
Just bet on one horse today.
Churchill in the QE2.
Hope he goes well!

Update, Elle.
I have nailed the parse to 3d
An unknown term to me formed part of the clue!

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, "he'll hole" and "th(e) rough" are very good!
I am now down to only two parses left!
But one of these is 3d.
I have "throw a wobbly" = rage
I did wonder if it were a partial anagram as "hot war" forms the first part (throw a) but that leaves me with "wobbly" and I cannot account for that?
The other one on which I am stuck is 15d: ennobled = gave title to
Please can you explain the rest of this?
I am admitting defeat.......
What time does Churchill run?
I shall cross my fingers.......

"wobbly" is the anagram indicator

Now you have lost me here, Cerasus....
How can a word that is a part of the answer, and does not appear in the clue, be an anagram indicator here?

15d (John) Donne (the poet, reversed) around b(ook) le (the French)

Posted in hallgreening's thread by Brackendale
THROW A is an anagram of HOT WAR
WOBBLY is the anagram indicator
So a THROW A WOBBLY leads to HOT WAR

Sorry if you thought I was shouting. I copied and pasted Brackendale's post without any alteration