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Hello, Elle!
I managed to get Google to search caparison by bracketing the word with inverted commas, "caparison".
Still could not find the poem, though!
Yes, DuckDuckGo is a well known search engine.
There are quite a few search engines.
Each with their own characteristics.
Bing, Yahoo, Ask, are others that come to mind.
Google is by far the most popular, though.
But other search engines may be better for each individual user.
DuckDuckGo does not keep info about you like Google does, so it's better for privacy.
Why not try one or two?
The puzzle seems OK.
I have just finished it.
Don't see an apology from The Times for their blunder yesterday!

Rusty and elle
You probably remember this line from Hamlet:

Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered

What was the blunder in the Times puzzle yesterday?

Hello, Chris,
The clue was originally,
"Mother and girl finding way round chief steward." (5,4)
That was online and in the paper.
The online edition was corrected during the day, to,
"Mother and girl finding way round doctor and chief steward." (5,4)
An error of omission!

Thanks rusty

Good afternoon, Rusty!
I am home again now.......and here to stay for the rest of the afternoon!
I now have (slightly ) shorter, and (definitely) straighter, hair!
I got back in time to receive another parcel.
This time via the Hermes carrier.
The man who always delivers from Hermes is very nice, altho' a tad scared of my dog
But we are working on this, and he actually stroked her today!
I have used Yahoo, Bing and Ask.......but found them inferior to Google....
But DuckDuckGo is new to me... I had thought you might be having me on!
I shall try it out.
I've yet to start my crossword!



Hello, Chris!
Yes, indeed...."Soft you now, The fair Ophelia!........"
The words "doctor and " were missed out of yesterday's Times crossword clue.
The answer was "majordomo"
It all parsed nicely, except for "MO"..... which then became clear when we found the word doctor had been omitted!

Hello, Elle!
Happy haircut!
No, DuckDuckGo is a real search engine.
You may like it, or not.
Just saying, there is a choice other than Google.

Hi, Rusty!
What a lovely afternoon!
It has warmed up considerably too, and is great out.
I have done my crossword , except for one clue...
I was gobsmacked when I saw that 1a was "migraine"!
And the aura effect version , too.
This cut rather close to home!
I thought it one of the easier puzzles we have had for a while....
Perhaps because the answers seemed to be rather unusually obvious from the first reading of the clue...
And I found I was writing in answers, and then, in many instances, parsing afterwards.
I cannot, however solve 14a: Pitch drink containers in bins (5, 7)
?I?L? / G?A?S?S
Nauru is a new country to me?
I had to look it up!
I discovered it is in Micronesia, north east of Australia.
And "lat" as short for "latrine" (I am assuming) is certainly an alternative to "lav" as an abbreviation for lavatory!
I like the idea of Noah and the animals being "arked"!
I think my favourite was 20d: bronze.

Hello, Elle!
The puzzle was straightforward today.
I remember Nauru from reading James Michener.
The one you are stuck with is "field glasses"
"Bins" is a slang/dialect word for spectacles, though it is new to me.

Hi, Rusty!
My goodness! You have a good memory.......you are often recalling excerpts from Mr M's books!
I have not read as many of his novels as you have - having "fallen out" with him over various personal issues - but I do not remember Narau?
"Field glasses"!
Ah, thank you.
A dim memory is stirring at the term...
Binoculars?
Hence the "bins", I presume.
I have missed my daughter phoning...
I was unaware of the time, and was out in the garden.

Hello, Elle!
Nauru is mentioned in "Hawaii", and, I think, "Tales of the South Pacific".
Trying to remember if Michener was stationed on it, or nearby during the war?
I know it was captured by the Japanese and liberated by the Australians.
Michener was a very good writer and I enjoyed his books.
I think you are correct about "bins".
Nothing to do with dialect!
Maybe your daughter will phone when she reaches home?