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Hello, Elle!
It is White Friday here (with the frost!)
Yes, I have bought a Chromebook online an hour ago.
I could have got one in my local Currys but they did not have the colour I preferred.
It gets delivered on Monday.
Monday suits me best.
The girls would give good advice, but all my young ones prefer Apple products and they are more expensive.
I shall have a look on Amazon and eBay later for books.
Puzzle complete, too!
I liked 18a, but am not aware of what the setter is thinking in 17d.
I'd best go down the word mines for help!

Hi, Rusty!
Well go on then......tell me .......
You surely didn't think I wasn't going to ask you what colour Chromebook you have chosen??!!
Seriously, that is very good .......
I am pleased that you have got what you wanted!
What make did you eventually buy ?
I have completed (all bar one clue) my crossword, too!
I thought it surprisingly easy today?
I think this is the fastest I have ever completed the 15 x15!
It was more like doing a QC!
I think my favourite was "Saxony ".
Re 17d....I got the 12' 6" item straightaway! 150 - CL- incher.
Chambers tells me that "clinch" means "grapple".
A nice clue, I thought.
I wondered if you would get the Pearly King!
The one I cannot do is 26a: What's poetic greeting heard the country over ? (5)
H?I?U
I have no idea about this one?

Hi elle
Japanese poem of 17 syllables. Homophone, then us reversed!

Hello, Elle!
It is blue, I did not want a white one.
It is an Acer make.
The Friday puzzle is usually a hard one.
So what is in an "incher" when it's at home?
I am not keen on the clue, though there may well be something I am not twigging.
The P-early King was a good one, I thought!
26, Elle, is a sort of poetry, from Japan, I think.
"Haiku".
Greeting heard is "hai", which sounds like "hi" (not a greeting I use, but never mind!)
The country over is UK becoming KU.
I think you are asking for less help now, which tells me you are improving all the time!
Miss La Bamba says it is too cold to go downtown to see the lights getting switched on!

Rusty
Did you not read the hint I gave elle? This is the second time in the last day or two that I've given a hint to elle, (as I believe she welcomes), and you've come straight in with the answer in the next post!

Hi, Rusty!
Blue sounds good, for your new Chromebook!
I believe Acer is a very good make.
Thank you for the explanation for "haiku".
I had never heard either of the greeting "Hai", or of the Japanese poetry "Haiku", so I was unlikely to understand the clue!
We have Christmas Lights in our village High Street......but I do not know if there is an official "Switching on" time.......
There may well be, or they may just be like "Topsy" in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"........
Are there special celebrations to go with your switching on of lights?



Thank you, Chris!
I should never have got that!
(typo tho....should have read "uk", as I see from Rusty's answer to my post)

Not exactly a typo, elle - by "us" I meant "UK"!

Oops, sorry, Chris - I thought you meant America!

Chris, Elle addressed a post to me for assistance.
I gave her the assistance she asked for as best I could, which I have been doing for quite some time now, and it has worked out very well..
I do not sit by my computer all day waiting to pounce on incoming queries.
And I am not remotely interested in what you do, or don't do, or your posts, so you can get off your high horse.

Rusty - you might have read my post and seen that I had given a hint, though, thus possibly making your answer unnecessary (though, as elle has said, she probably did in fact need the answer!)