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New compiler ? I can`t remember doing the x-word so quickly before !

hi Mags
I think the usual compiler must be on holiday.
It was not much of a challenge, sadly.

EVen I have managed it with only a dictionary and no use of Quick Solve so it must be easy or else I am getting better (unlikely). However at least I can get on with the much neglected garden now! A nice warm day here for once in a long time.

I just picked it up today. Easy, apart from the embarrassingly long time it took me to see 22a. I was obsessed with "outside of timber" meaning TR, so I tried TRUE for "quite" (wondering why UE was a knot!)

You think you were embarrassed Chrise (hope you enjoyed Italy )? I just started it last night. Stuck for ages on 23ac, playing with March & Oder. I even tried October & forgot all about May! 21d "Quickly draw a pastry case" is my problem . The only word I can see is 'puff ' but can't see why? ? ?

hi
quickly draw (breath) - puff

...and puff pastry

Thanks Jazzy. I thought of those but didn't like 'em! As far as I was concerned puff is more the exhalation as in puff of wind and the opposite of pant. While puff pastry ain't necessarily a case until it's made into one but I'm a pedantic old...!

I should have mentioned
puff - to take a draw at a cigarette, cigar, or pipe.
I agree not all puff pastry has a filling,

Fairly easy except I am stuck on 19d and 24a
19d Shortened box, allowed to spill, likely to be empty (5) ?E???
24a Confused chief left in top city (9) ?I?H?I???

Help please :)